This originates from the American Confederacy (C.S.A) during the war of northern aggression (the Civil War). It was originally phrased as "WHEN TYRANNY BECOMES LAW, REBELLION BECOMES DUTY".
Ghandi
Voltaire, a French philosopher, is often attributed with this quote.
Sheikh Said rebellion happened in 1925-02.
They become nails upon them because it makes the guilt or remorse for the injustice greater on their conscience.
King George III said this.
Martin Luther King Jr said, "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood". This was from his famous "I have a Dream" speech.
Benjamin Franklin
The Grinch in the 2000 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Thomas Jefferson.
he wanted to stop slavery
it's said to contract.
"Who Goes There?" is the title of a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell Jr., published in 1938 under the pen name Don A. Stuart. The phrase itself is often associated with the novella's plot, which deals with a group of scientists in Antarctica who discover a shape-shifting alien.