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Based on "civil dis-obedience," what statement did thoreau, like his modern-day successors, hope to make with his imprisonment?
a. he wanted to show the great unfairness of the prison system.
b. he wanted to prove himself as a martyr for his cause.
c. he wanted to suggest that one should be willing to go to great lengths for a belief.
d. he wanted to suggest that imprisonment was the only valid form of political protest.

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