To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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