Bobby Seale (1936) American activist
Transcript from Seale's conspiracy case as part of the Chicago 8 (October 1968)
“The tiger that assails me is in the right, and I who strike him down am also in the right. I defend against him not my right, but myself.”
— Max Stirner, book The Ego and Its Own
S. Byington, trans. (1913), p. 191
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
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