 Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked...  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Page 149by Henry David Thoreau - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.' — ' Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the...for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...name, — if ten l,',,!-xi men only, — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this...for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have Already put themselves... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1879 - 306 pages
...sin of slavery upon her sister, — though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitably to be the ground of a quarrel with her, — the Legislature...for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves... | |
 | 1880 - 400 pages
...of her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was apart 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... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...of her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was apart 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 HONEST... | |
 | 1880 - 798 pages
...her I can, as is usual 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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1882 - 492 pages
...her I can, as is usual 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... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1889 - 260 pages
...war with the State after my own fashion." 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 in prison. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name —... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...government which imprison » any nnjnstlg, . N / the true place for a just man is also a prison. Thej proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer airfr less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be puit out and locked out of the State by her... | |
 | 1891 - 642 pages
...government also. "In fact," he said, "I will quietly after my fashion, declare war with the State." "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, or if one honest man in this state of Massachusetts... | |
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