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Quotation from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (appended essay) (Project Gutenberg text)
The central claim of the essay printed with Walden in the library text, written after Thoreau's night in jail for refusing his tax.
Citation: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." — Henry David Thoreau, Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (appended essay) (Project Gutenberg text). (id walden-q8)
Portrait: Walden Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields (publisher), Public domain.
