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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau (Slavery in Massachusetts Quotes)

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Source:Slavery in Massachusetts (1854); The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1906), Volume IV, Page 396
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  • Name: Henry David Thoreau
  • Profession: Naturalist, Poet
  • Born: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
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