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And those who find that their wants do not secure attention are, inevitably, tempted to an examination of the moral foundations of such a society.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski notes that those whose needs are ignored are likely to question the moral basis of their society.
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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.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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