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Henry David Thoreau 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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