Quote from Henry David Thoreau 

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison."

Quote by:
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist
Source:
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
 
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