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

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

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

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.