 | Daryl Cumber Dance - 2002 - 804 páginas
...proclaimed and denounced. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day anj Other that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross in- Speeches justice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a... | |
 | Patrick B. Miller - 2003 - 534 páginas
...Fourth of July?" writes Douglass. "I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice, and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." Quoted in Meltzer, In Their Own Words, vol. 1, 23-25. Frederick Douglass (National Archives) thinking,... | |
 | Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove - 2011 - 667 páginas
...must be proclaimed and denounced. 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...empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns,... | |
 | Charles J. Ogletree - 2004 - 412 páginas
...Americans. Yet Douglass lamented, What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 páginas
...stained with pollution, is wrong? . . . 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...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 375 páginas
..."What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?" he queries derisively (and conclusively): "A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the...your celebration is a sham: your boasted liberty, and unholy license: your national greatness, swelling vanity: your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | Roy L. Brooks - 2004 - 364 páginas
...commemorating. Independence Day. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the...constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your hoasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing... | |
 | Nicolaus Mills, Michael Walzer - 2004 - 373 páginas
...Fourth of July?" Every account quotes the fugitive-turned-abolitionist speaking truth to white power: "Your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty,...empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery." But fewer commentators... | |
 | Zillah Eisenstein - 2004 - 264 páginas
...democracy. DuBois asked what the Fourth of July could mean to an American slave. He answers that it is a day "that reveals to him, more than all other days in...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim". DuBois mocks America's claim to "superior civilization" alongside the enslavement of millions. Full... | |
 | Carl F. Wieck - 2004 - 257 páginas
...as to the tenor of his message: "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...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."31 In Huckleberry Finn, Joanna Wilks's question as to whether servants in England are not "like... | |
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth 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. 
