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They do not remember that the price of conflict is the destruction of freedom and that with its loss there go the qualities which make for the humanity of men.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns that conflict leads to the loss of freedom and the essence of humanity.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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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