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To fight for the assurance that a man may do his duty as he conceives it is not only to fight for freedom, but for all the ends which the emancipation of mankind seeks to attain.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “To fight for the assurance that a man may do his duty as he conceives it is not only to fight for freedom, but for all…”
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Laski believes that fighting for one's duty is intrinsically linked to the broader struggle for freedom.
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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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