This is something that is heavily addressed in Civil Disobedience. Although police may have attempted to stop the protests, Thoreau says this is a normal occurrence when a society attempts to ignore the wishes of the government. “Men also serve the State with their conscience, and this is how it necessarily rests for the most part; and they are generally treated as enemies” (3). It highlights the idea that rebelling and causing unrest when you are unhappy with your government can often cast you in a negative light. Whatever the consequence, Thoreau speaks in Civil Disobedience about the importance of acting on your right to revolution. “All men recognize the right of resolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and resist government, when its tyranny or inefficiency is great and intolerable” (4). He goes on to state that "a wise man will not leave the law to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail by the power of the majority”