Frederick Douglass (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“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 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 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
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, forbidden to pursue freedom, to read and write. He chose to disobey the laws by learning to read and write and run away as a hunted fugitive to become a Diplomat, Editor, reporter, and author…
Perhaps another and more detailed examination of his statement above is warranted in respect for his accomplishments, knowledge, and experience.
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