“A man's right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right - and there let it rest forever.”

—  Frederick Douglass

1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)

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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895

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