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For no outlook which has behind it the support of considerable numbers will ever silently acquiesce in its reduction to impotence.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski notes that any belief supported by a significant number of people will resist attempts to diminish its influence.
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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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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