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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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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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.
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.
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