Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.
— Frederick Douglass Modern

Abolitionist, orator

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Speech 'A Plea for Free Speech in Boston'

Date / Period

1860

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2744/2744-h/2744-h.htm

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