To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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