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And we cannot, therefore, permit attack upon it because it represents ideas or experience alien from our own.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “And we cannot, therefore, permit attack upon it because it represents ideas or experience alien from our own.”
Editor's note · Context
He warns against attacking ideas that differ from our own, as they may hold value.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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.
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