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If he is driven, in this realm, to silence and inactivity, he becomes a dumb and inarticulate creature, whose personality is neglected in the making of policy.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns that silencing individuals leads to their marginalization in policy-making.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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