there “could have been no such Revolution if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.”34 It is not mere injustice that brought about the Revolution, but excessive, inhumane, and prolonged injustice. As Martin Luther King Jr. would exclaim a century later, in response to the societal admonition to “wait” longer for justice: “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”35
