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Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

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When laws oppress people instead of protecting them, those people lose trust in the system and try to avoid or resist authority. Those who suffer the most under unfair laws, having nothing left to lose, become the greatest threat to those in power.

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