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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. |
By: | Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau) |
(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist | |
Source: | Stray Birds, 1849 |
Categories: | Freedom, Government, Justice, Liberty, Oppression, Prison, Slavery, Terrorism, Tyranny |
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Kindle Categories: | Prison |