"Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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“Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.”
“I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.”
“In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'”