To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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