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That is why the friends of liberty are always a minority in every society.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “That is why the friends of liberty are always a minority in every society.”
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Laski observes that advocates for liberty often find themselves in the minority within society.
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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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.
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