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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."


By:

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

Source:

Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

Categories:

Freedom, Law, Slavery

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