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The idea of equality, in a word, is such an organization of opportunity that no man’s personality suffers frustration to the private benefit of others.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski defines equality as an organization of opportunities that prevents personal frustration for the benefit of others.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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