...of the floor for ink, "Votes for Women," and the saying from Thoreau's Duty of Civil Disobedience- "Under a Government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man (or woman) is also a prison"; on the wall opposite my bed I wrote the text from Joshua, "Only be thou...

...pay along the way. We know nothing will be for free. — SYRIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER ANWAR AL BUNNI Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1 he human toll in the struggle for political change is the...

...government which both sanctioned and thrived on slavery. On his imprisonment for this offence, he countered: 'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison' (Thoreau, 1960: 230). As the examples of Arundhati Roy and Ken Saro Wiwa drawn later in this chapter...

...counting, millions starving — I had landed, it seemed, where I belonged, like Jesus: in a dungeon. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison," Thoreau wrote in On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. That night, I repeated his words like...