The history behind the design
Who said knowledge is power? The line is usually credited to Francis Bacon in 1597, and this t-shirt links it back to Magna Carta 1215.
“Knowledge is power” is usually traced to the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, who wrote ipsa scientia potestas est (“knowledge itself is power”) in his Meditationes Sacrae of 1597.
For Lawful Rebellion Co. the phrase points back to Magna Carta 1215: a right you don’t know about is a right you can’t use, so the first step is to read the charter and learn what it actually says.