"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech, Rochester, New York (5 July 1852) - Douglass, Frederick | WIST Quotations
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history -- the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of…
