 | Scott Nearing - Education - 1925 - 272 pages
...political organization as my government which is the slave's government also. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and... | |
 | Criticism - 1928 - 198 pages
...with him have to test in their own person the truth of Thoreau's great words: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison. ... It is there that the fugitive slaves, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 pages
...in such cases." He was put in prison; but that was a part of his design. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — ay, if one... | |
 | Renée L. Bergland - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 220 pages
...it played in his successful campaign for Mashpee rights. Thoreau's words: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding... | |
 | William E. Cain - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 pages
...present Thoreau 's local protest, not his global one. Consider, for example, "under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" (76). For non-resistants, anyone imprisoned is unjustly imprisoned;1s for Thoreau and Gandhi, the crucial... | |
 | Jeffrey Jay Folks - Literary Collections - 2000 - 296 pages
...the House of the Dead The Subversive Gaze of A LESSON BEFORE DYING John Lowe Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau The Hebrews produced the image of Job. Only the Greeks could have imagined Prometheus,... | |
 | Lorraine Hopping Egan, Louise Spigarelli - Education - 2000 - 84 pages
...than the bullet. (Speech on democracy, 1856) a Henry David Thoreau ^ Writer Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Civil Disobedience, 1849) a* Abraham Lincoln -^. US President A house divided against itself cannot... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...the midnight message of Paul Revere. HENRY DAVID THOREAU CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)— essayist, poet, naturalist, reformer, and philosopher—... | |
 | Jake C. Miller - Nonviolence - 2002 - 278 pages
...suffer the consequence of such action. In his essay, "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau suggested that "under a government that imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." In later years, advocates of social justice, finding inspiration in the essay, sought to follow his... | |
 | Dorothee Sölle - Religion - 2001 - 342 pages
...English Labour Party theorists also passionately discussed the pamphlet. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ... It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to... | |
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. 
