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Famous Quote from Henry David Thoreau,

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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Prison
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