After spending the night in jail for refusing to pay poll taxes, Thoreau said he felt "as if he alone of all his fellow citizens had paid his taxes" (Thoreau 319). Thoreau is trying to say that he feels like he is the only one who actually served his time in prison and paid his justice more than those who oppose and say they didn't. King went to prison because of a program of sit-ins at lunch counters. While King was in prison he wrote a letter formally intended for the eight white priests. As I said before, King believes he was put in prison unjustly and that he is behaving like a responsible citizen even though he knows he was put in prison unjustly. Being both in prison they agree that injustice exists. Thoreau thinks of injustice as a pressure that can wear down the machine. King thinks that injustice exists and that tension must be created through direct action to negotiate with the machine. I also agree with King here, on how he thinks injustice still exists because to this day there is injustice in our country and others too. As a matter of fact, the black community today faces injustices from law enforcement. Some black men have been killed by the police and the government is not doing much to solve the problem and is letting the police get away with it. This is an example of injustice towards all black people because the police seem to kill these innocent people just because of their race. This