"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth - - certainly the machine will wear out . . but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, than I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn." Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849.
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