In Thoreau’s writing “Civil Obedience”, he uses pathos, ethos, and logos many times throughout his writing to persuade the citizens and people . the main purpose was to persuade the them that the government is unjust and that a person’s conscience should be more important than laws. “Laws and government may be improved when they come from conscience, not when conscience follows laws or government.” (Bankston). stated in the Bankston writing , Thoreau’s “refusal to pay the tax, he explains, is a refusal of allegiance to the government. In this way, he quietly declares war on the state” (Bankston). Apparently Thoreau’s work didnt have enough persuasion to it, or maybe it did just not with the government, because this writing also says that
