On the record
We could not develop an adequate law of divorce if only those happily married were entitled to express an opinion upon its terms.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Laski points out that a fair divorce law cannot be developed without input from those who have experienced divorce.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
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