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Where those results are already possessed by some, they seldom have the imagination to see the consequence of their denial to others.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Laski points out that those who possess freedom often lack empathy for those who do not.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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