51 Quotes About Fourth-of-july





  • Author Abhijit Naskar
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    Flag Cruelty Fraught (The New American Anthem)Say, can you see,The darkness we've caused?Our star spangled banner,Is a flag cruelty fraught.It ain't land of the free,It ain't home of the brave.Where looks define dignity,Is but humanity's grave.Slavery is alive as racism,Bigotry still claims dominion.First we must treat these ailments,Or else, for us there is no dawn.O say, it's time to abolish all false glory.Forget valor, let's first practice equality.

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  • Author Sarah Vowell
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    Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1778 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, an entire generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, 'This is your Fourth of July, not mine.

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