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I deny, therefore, that there is any qualitative difference between the interests or the rights of states, and the interests or rights of other associations or individuals.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the rights of states are fundamentally similar to those of individuals and other associations.
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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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