To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Frederick DouglassA Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)
About Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist, orator and writer. (1818-1895)
More from Frederick Douglass
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
- I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Speech on the anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1885)
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (1883)
More quotes on communication
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Stephen R. Covey
- In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.Stephen R. Covey
- Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.Stephen R. Covey
- Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.Brené Brown
- Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.Brené Brown
- Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do.Simon Sinek
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