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Legal right is so made as the individual recipient of a command invests it with right; he gives it his sanction by relating it successfully to his own experience.
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Harold J. Laski
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He explains that legal rights are validated by individuals who relate them to their own experiences.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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.
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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