civil disobedience quotes

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
We are told to maintain constitutions because they are constitutions, and what is laid down in those constitutions?... Certain gre ...
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates ...
I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little be ...
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the m ...
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyr ...
If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wi ...
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, an ...
I meet this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year--no more--in ...
For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State. But, if I deny the authority of the S ...
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