We talk a lot about the Founding Fathers on #July4th, but America is always being refounded. We see leaders throughout our history who inspire us to be that more perfect union we were not at our inception...
I'd like to include in the pantheon of our Founders folks like Harriet Tubman. Just like the colonists who broke from England, Harriet Tubman rebelled against cruel laws because she saw a need for justice.
Ella Baker, Ruby Bridges, and Civil Rights Movement leaders and marchers did just as much to define what America is than Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Let’s expand what we consider American principles and who brought them to us.
I'll close with this Frederick Douglass excerpt from his speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July." I encourage you to read the speech and this thoughtful essay from @sarahmquinlan.
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