The most subtle, perhaps, is the denial of adequate educational facilities; for what, in fact, that does is to prevent me from knowing how to formulate my claim effectively, and unattention is the price I have to pay for my ineffectiveness.
Harold J. Laski: “The most subtle, perhaps, is the denial of adequate educational facilities; for what, in fact, that does is to prevent…”
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Laski highlights the impact of inadequate education on an individual's ability to assert their rights effectively.
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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.





