Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalistSource: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm