#truthhurts #4thofJuly ~ What, to the American slave, is your 4th - TopicsExpress



          

#truthhurts #4thofJuly ~ What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. ~ FREDERICK DOUGLASS historyisaweapon/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:14:11 +0000

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