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Originally Posted By u/serious_bullet5 At 2025-05-05 04:12:58 PM | Source


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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jefferson-injustice-resistance-quote/

Anna Berkes, a manager for public services and collections development at the foundation, wrote in 2013: "This statement has not been found in Thomas Jefferson's writings, although it captures some of the ideas that Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence, e.g. '...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...'"

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what was said in the post.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This is all I see