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Who would be free, must themsleves strike the blow. ^\. You know that liberty given is never so precious as liberty sought for and fought for. The man outraged is the man to make the outcry. Depend upon 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 [illegable] cruelty to which he is constant victim. To him you celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty and unholy liscence; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound 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 ^s and thanksgivings, with all your religious parad and solemnity, are to him mere bonbast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy - a thin veil [illegible 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, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through 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 shamelss hypocrisy, American reigns without a rival

Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852

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