They wear a breach of the law as a badge of courage, like the revolutionary in Czarist Russia or the suffragette in pre-war England; and the imposition of penalties upon them arouses in them and their friends a sense of angry injustice.
He draws parallels between modern lawbreakers and historical figures who defied oppressive regimes, suggesting a sense of justice in their actions.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
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