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Who would be free, must themselves strike the blow. You know the liberty given is never so precious as liberty sought for and fought for. The man outraged is the man to make the outcry. Depend on it, men will not care much for men a people who' do not care for themselves.

Frederick Douglass, 1883

What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer a day that reveals to him more than all the other days of the year the gross injustice and xxxxxx cruelty to which he is constant victim. To him you celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy liscence; 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 hymnys, your sermond and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast,' fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy - a thin veil which will to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of earth guilty of crimes more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.

Go where you may, shearch where you will, roam through all the monarchies and depotisms of the old world, travel throught South America, serach out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation and you will say with me that for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, American reigns without a rival

Frederick Douglas, July 4,1852

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