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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"


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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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Civil Disobedience (1849)

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Authority, Dissent, Honor, Integrity, Justice, Law, Persecution, Power, Protest, Redress, Responsibility, Rights

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