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The inhabitants of any given area have a consciousness of common purposes, a sense of the needs of their neighbourhood, which only they can fully know.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The inhabitants of any given area have a consciousness of common purposes, a sense of the needs of their neighbourhood…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski emphasizes the unique understanding that local inhabitants have of their community's needs.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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.
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.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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