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Quotation from North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
“Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used—not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”
North and South, Chapter XIV: The Meeting
Margaret defends her exiled brother's part in the mutiny.
Citation: "Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used—not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless." — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter XIV: The Meeting. (id north-and-south-q2)
Portrait: Elizabeth Gaskell, George Richmond, Public domain.
