What would be a thesis statement for The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail involving either individuality, freedom, or conformity?

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Henry David Thoreau, one of
the greatest individualists of America, wrote,

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How does it become a man to behave towards the
American government today?  I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with
it.

He also said these
words--words quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr.,in the letter from the Birmingham City
Jail on April 16, 1963:

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to
arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the
very highest respect for
law.

From what Thoreau has
written in these lines and in his "Resistance to Civil Government," his
non-conformity and resistance to authority are salient
forces in his thoughts and writings.  His refusal to pay a tax that supported the
Mexican War was a very individualistic act that, in its non-conformity, brought to light
issues that Thoreau felt should not be supported.  Thus Thoreau's non-conformity in
going to jail to "expresses the very highest respect for the law"--that which follows
the constitution--and is an act of individuality that brings to light three points which
you can develop. 

Further, in the play by Jerome Lawrence
and Robert Lee, Thoreau also meets a slave, so the recurrent theme of resistance to the
popular acceptance of slavery would also be a point to consider including as the idea of
being chained to institutions is a violation of one's
individuality.