On the record
If it do not authorize an individual to resist the first and least act of injustice or tyranny, on the part of the government, it does not authorize him to resist the last and the greatest.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner states that the right to resist injustice must apply from the smallest act to the largest.
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