And if a man, in our own country--either from motives of profit to himself, or from motives of pity towards the pauper laborers of other countries--chooses to buy the products of the foreign pauper labor, rather than the products of the laborers of his own country, he has a perfect legal right to do so.
Spooner defends the right of individuals to choose foreign products over domestic ones.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
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