When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'
Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.156, Routledge
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