He was the first English statesman fully to understand the moral import of the problem of subject races; and if he did not make impossible the Joseph Sedleys of the future, at least he flung an eternal challenge to their malignant complacency.
Laski praises Burke for recognizing the moral implications of colonialism and its impact on subject races.
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