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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau Resistance to Civil Government · 1849

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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

Henry David Thoreau · Resistance to Civil Government, 1849 · Primary source

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American writer and philosopher · 1817-1862
Henry David Thoreau

Essayist and transcendentalist known for Walden, civil disobedience and influential writing on nature and society.

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Henry David Thoreau · 1849
Resistance to Civil Government

An argument for individual conscience over unjust state authority, examining taxation, slavery, war, resistance, and the moral limits of government.

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