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Frederick Douglass, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July”
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people. Douglass’s speech appears below. [Read more]
Quotes
Dr. King said that we cannot allow them to take the flag and the Cross from us…, which would not make you right or left but make you right down the center of what is morally correct.
Rev. Al Sharpton, Morning Joe, MSNBC, 7/15/19
(see Beyond Left and Right: Compassionate Pragmatism)