Every Dictator's Nightmare By Soyinka Analysis

All men are created equal, therefore all men should be treated as so by one another; it is expected though, that absolute equality will not be achieved in a society due to people’s differences in beliefs, values, and opinions. An idea in the Declaration of Independence that is heavily supported by citizens is that people have certain natural unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People are guaranteed by nature the ability to freely live however they please to attain happiness, as long as their means don’t violate the rights of others. When these rights are infringed upon, or when the minority is oppressed by the majority, it is their right to partake in civil disobedience to demand and assure their freedom, liberty, and happiness, which are all supposed to be intrinsic.
Martin Luther King’s views of civil disobedience being a right of the citizens, from his “Letter from Birmingham