Frederick Douglass and Henry Louis Gates on free speech and hate speech

Frederick Douglass "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." —Frederick Douglass, "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston" Henry Louis Gates From "Critical Race Theory and Freedom of Speech" in The Future of Academic Freedom, edited by Louis Menard, University of Chicago Press, 1996: What you don't hear from the hate