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Answer:
He wanted to suggest that one should be willing to go to great lengths for a belief
Explanation:
Based on "Civil Disobedience," the statement that Thoreau, like his modern-day successors, hoped to make with his imprisonment was to suggest that one should be willing to go great lengths for a belief.
Thoreau like many other activists before him had to endure imprisonment and unfair treatment for a cause he believed in, without backing down.
