Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

I simply say as a black woman and ask them to remember that Frederick Douglass... was able in even that society to denounce slavery all over the United States.

Context

Norton references Frederick Douglass to highlight the importance of free speech.

07/26/2017

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