“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..” Frederick Douglass 
“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..” Frederick Douglass
”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..” Frederick Douglass
”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..” Frederick Douglass
"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened.." Frederick Douglass
"The conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced" Frederick Douglass
'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' by Frederick Douglass bit.ly/2u43Ahx
“I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, dare to call in question and to denounce everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of America” Frederick Douglass bit.ly/2lVgDy4
