Cindy Weinstein on Nostr: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to ...
"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 & 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
& equality, hollow mockery."
https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice & 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
& equality, hollow mockery."
https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf