“If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.” “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.” What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.” “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
“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?” “Law never made men a whit more just and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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