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Harold J. Laski: “Those who are silent in the presence of injustice are in fact part-authors of it.”

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Those who are silent in the presence of injustice are in fact part-authors of it.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski states that silence in the face of injustice makes one complicit in it.

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