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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.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that denying expression to new ideas or grievances validates their inherent truths.
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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.
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.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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