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“Those who deny people their rights commit an injustice.”
Source: Muqaddimah (1377), ch. III, sec. 41, trans. Franz Rosenthal (1958)
Context From the section arguing that injustice by rulers, such as seizing property and forced labour, destroys the incentive to work and ruins civilisation.
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