Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law”
Henry David Thoreau
“a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law is unjust”
St Thomas Aquinas
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."
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