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To admit that I ought to have that freedom is to deny that the inequality upon which society rests is valid.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “To admit that I ought to have that freedom is to deny that the inequality upon which society rests is valid.”
Editor's note · Context
Laski argues that recognizing one's right to freedom challenges the validity of societal inequalities.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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