Essay About United States And Grand Ol Day

4th of July
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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!!
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 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 these United States, at this very hour.
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