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But it is our duty, too, to respect that protest when it is sincerely made.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “But it is our duty, too, to respect that protest when it is sincerely made.”
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Laski advocates for respecting sincere protests, even if they challenge the status quo.
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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.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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