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Quote from Howard Mumford Jones,


"Persecution is the first law of society because
it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."


By:

Howard Mumford Jones (more quotes by Howard Mumford Jones or books by/about Howard Mumford Jones)


(1892-1980) Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University

Source:

Primer of Intellectual Freedom, 1949

Categories:

Censorship, Dissent, Oppression, Prohibition, Persecution

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