All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refus…

Henry David Thoreau
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All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, p.5, Hayes Barton Press
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