Frederick Douglass Quote

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 in Boston (10 December 1860), as contained in Words That Changed America, Alex Barnett, Rowman & Littlefield (reprint, 2006), p. 156


To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.