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Why do free speech debates make us so angry? | Society
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Why do free speech debates make us so angry? | Society

IIn January 2015, two al-Qaeda members shot dead cartoonists at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the following weeks, my Facebook page split into two. Many of my childhood friends (I grew up in France and went to school near Paris) expressed their

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Literary Center » Here's Frederick Douglass's July 4th Speech to Rewatch
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Literary Center » Here’s Frederick Douglass’s July 4th Speech to Rewatch

Frederick Douglass’s great speech “What’s the Fourth of July for a slave?” The speech, delivered before a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852, reflected the contrasts that remain in the nation’s Fourth of July celebrations, then and to this day. The nation’s founding documents may have declared that “all men

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