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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 19, 2021
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November 19, 2021: Seventy-nine percent (79%) of voters believe that free speech protects minority rights. A Scott Rasmussen national survey also showed that 64% believe no one is empowered more by free speech than the historically marginalized and dispossessed.[1]
Twenty-two percent (22%) think that those who support free speech are enemies of diversity. Sixty-nine percent (69%) reject that view.[1]
Frederick Douglass called free speech “the great moral renovator of society and government.” Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters agree.
Douglass, born into slavery became one of the nation’s greatest orators. On the eve of the Civil War, he gave a speech observing that free speech “is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence.”
As it applied to the dominant issue of his day, Douglass said “Slavery cannot tolerate free speech. Five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South.”[1]
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