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Harold J. Laski: They have to be interpreted in the light of our experience; and to suppress someone’s experience is to suppress…

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They have to be interpreted in the light of our experience; and to suppress someone’s experience is to suppress someone’s personality, to impose upon him our view of what his life implies to the forcible exclusion of that in which alone he can find meaning.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski emphasizes the importance of personal experience in understanding facts and meaning.

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