But the whole procedure had the serious result of making the public expect that any hunger-strike would be a dramatic battle between the government and its prisoner, in which the cause of the imprisonment was lost sight of in the gamble of the procedure.
Laski critiques the public's perception of hunger strikes as mere spectacles.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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