When is it rite to fight? (When is it right to challenge authority?)

In his essay “Civil Disobedience” written in 1846, Henry David Thoreau states "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." He argues that it is better to decide right and wrong by conscience which everyone has and not by a sense of obligation to the law. From time to time, the government constructs appalling laws. It is under the direction of these laws that disagreements often arise among citizens of a society. Proper interactions with authority have been constructed in such a means that most disagreements stay insignificant; however, one must realize that it can be right to oppose the authority by using civil disobedience. It is right to fight authority when you are fighting for something that isn’t just, or is hurting other people, such as issues like racial equality, basic rights or freedom of religion is being oppressed.

Civil disobedience is ...