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Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. Frederick Douglass.
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- Booker T. Washington
“No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them.” By Frederick Douglass Library of Congress
16 Ιουν 2016 · "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex." Speech, 15 November 1867 as quoted in Robin…
28 Ιαν 2021 · “Good, wise, and generous men at the North,” Douglass observed, “would have us forget and forgive, strew flowers alike and lovingly, on rebel and on loyal graves.”
9 Νοε 2019 · In an 1871 editorial he took a position worth heeding today. The failure to exercise one’s right to vote, he wrote, “is as great a crime as an open violation of the law itself.”
13 Νοε 2023 · Like Stevens, Douglass argued vehemently that Johnson had to be countered and thwarted by any legal means necessary or the promise of emancipation would fail. Douglass believed at the end of 1866...
The title of Douglass’s speech lamenting the new segregation pointedly alludes to Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech in 1858, in which Lincoln predicted that the government of the United States could not endure “half slave and half free.”
