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Read & copy the quotation
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
- Source
- Civil Disobedience
- Date
- 1849
Meaning of “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the…”
Thoreau argues that when imprisonment is used against people acting justly, accepting imprisonment can become a visible refusal to cooperate with the injustice of the state.
Where does it come from?
Civil Disobedience; represented Wikisource text. This sentence belongs to Thoreau’s abolitionist and antiwar case for noncooperation with an unjust government, not a context-free instruction for ordinary legal disputes.
