51 Quotes About Fourth-of-july
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Freedom is viewed as a ‘right’ to those who don’t yet understand that everything is a ‘privilege.
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- Author Debasish Mridha
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Let us express our deepest gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to give us freedom. Wish you all a very joyful Independence Day!
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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When your heart is labeled,The world stays hypnotized in darkness.The moment you rip them to pieces,Tides of light awaken all synapses.
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- Author William H. Gass
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it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.
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- 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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