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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


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


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:

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm

Categories:

Disobedience, Justice, Police, Prison, Statism, Tyranny

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