Harold J. Laski: “Freedom, therefore, in an unequal society has no easy task as it seeks realization.”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.