To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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