On the record
They say that reason and justice prevail; but they mean their reason and their justice.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThey say that reason and justice prevail; but they mean their reason and their justice.
This quote critiques the subjective nature of reason and justice as defined by the powerful.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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