• فريد 🇵🇸🍉🔻@freefree.psOP
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    8 days ago

    @Cowbee The quote is commonly attributed to Jefferson in English speaking countries and to Brecht in German speaking countries but while it captures the essence of what they said and wrote the source of the exact quote is actually unknown.

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      7 days ago

      One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

      MLK, A letter from Birmingham Jail 1963

      A much better person to quote and something we actually know he wrote.

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        8 days ago

        it’s an easy mistake to make since young jefferson was so full of revolutionary (for the time) fervor; but he DEFINITELY became much more status quo as he aged.