Frederick Douglass: “No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

Douglass argues that liberty is most cherished and secured by those who have fought to obtain it.

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