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Unless the minority is content to be bound by the will of superior numbers the law of nature has no more protection than it had before the institution of political society.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that without the consent of the minority, the law of nature remains unprotected.
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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.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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