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Quotation: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
Sources consulted:
Other attributions: Henry David Thoreau
First known appearance in print, attributed to Thomas Jefferson: 2006[1]
Comments: This statement has not been found in Thomas Jefferson's writings, although it captures some of the ideas that Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence [2] e.g. "...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..."
- Anna Berkes, 4/11/13
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