Harold J. Laski: “Those who have fought for the right to think freely in theology or the…”

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Those who have fought for the right to think freely in theology or the natural sciences are not less certainly the ancestors of political freedom.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski connects the fight for intellectual freedom in various fields to the broader struggle for political freedom.

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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

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