To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
(A Plea for Free Speech, 1860)
Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. 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. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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