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12Petals | Follow Category: Human Rights December 17, 2012 - 16:48 PDT | Last Edited: December 17, 2012 - 16:48 PDT 0 793

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Quote from Frederick Douglass :

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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