Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quoted VII

"Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

-Frederick Douglass
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
1852

As I keep studying and learning more, the challenges of the past continue to make me hopeful for the future, that we can progress without forgetting. Happy Fourth.


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