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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.



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Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)


(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist

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Disobedience, Dissent, Integrity, Law

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