Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a… — 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.

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848
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Thoreau, Henry. "Civil Disobedience." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
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Thoreau, Henry. "The Relation of the Individual to the State." 26 Jan. 1848, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA.

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