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The right of the modern man to education became fundamental to his freedom once the mastery of Nature by science transformed the sources of power.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that education is a fundamental right for modern individuals to achieve freedom.
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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.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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