 | David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...men. My soul sickens at the sight. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July ? I answer : a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...your celebration is a sham ; your boasted liberty, an unholy license ; your national greatness, swelling vanity ; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 512 pages
...man must be proclaimed and denounced. What to the American slave is your Fourth of July ? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...your celebration is a sham ; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity ; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...My soul sickens at the sight. 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...your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | James Monroe Gregory - Abolitionists - 1893 - 270 pages
...soul sickens at the sight. ******* "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July ? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...your celebration is a sham ; your boasted liberty, an unholy license ; your national greatness, swelling vanity ; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - African Americans - 1920 - 408 pages
...against God and man must be denounced. What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | 1926 - 384 pages
...mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. . . . What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - Convict labor - 1982 - 233 pages
...reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
 | Jon Michael Spencer - Music - 280 pages
...Captives" (No. 203), John Greenleaf Whittier came close to versifying Douglass's own response, "I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Whittier wrote: M Watts says: "And not only must we be sensible of our being expos'd to Divine Anger... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...and man 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...your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and... | |
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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. 
