We are finding ways of reaching the opinion of citizens in different states over the heads of their governments; of making those citizens demand attention to League recommendations in a way that a generation ago would have been unthinkable.
Laski highlights the importance of citizen engagement in international matters beyond their governments.
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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.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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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