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They are often ignorant, usually dangerous, and invariably active.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThey are often ignorant, usually dangerous, and invariably active.
In this quote, Laski describes a dangerous and active group of people who threaten freedom.
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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.