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But governments would do well to remember, what they are too prone to forget, that they do not remove grievance, however ill-conceived, by suppressing it.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns that suppressing grievances does not resolve the underlying issues.
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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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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.
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