GDG- your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license

[Robert G. Pielke]

Thanks...I've used this quote in my blog....
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dennis Lawrence 
  To: gettysburg at gdg.org 
  Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 7:00 AM
  Subject: GDG- your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license


  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


  On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the 
  signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's 
  Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his 
  audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I 
  must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, 
  by asking me to speak to-day?"

   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  What, to the American slave, is your 4th 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 sound of rejoicing are 
  empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted 
  impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your 
  prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, 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 the United States, at this very hour.


  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html 

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