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They come, of course, mainly from men who have been excluded from intimate contact with the fruits of power.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “They come, of course, mainly from men who have been excluded from intimate contact with the fruits of power.”
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Laski points out that those excluded from power often provide valuable insights into societal demands.
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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.
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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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