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4th Of July

So many people will be watching Fireworks and
having a grand ol day of 'glory', but before you
do, please think about what it means to
many millions of Americans. This quote may
be over a hundred years old, but as far as I
am concerned it is pretty relevant today, if
not more so!!

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WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?

_Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July 5,
1852_ by Frederick Douglass

What to the American slave is your Fourth 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
denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted
impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality,
hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your
sermons and......


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