"f the injustice is part of the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
More by Henry David Thoreau
More on Injustice
“All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.”
“It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.”
“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”
More on Government
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”