Quote of the Day

A timely quote in the era of Iraq, a demolished New Orleans, strict constructionist Supremes and on-going social program savaging.

“‘[Y]our celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

- Frederick Douglass, ’What to the Slave is the 4th of July?‘

On-line discussion of the speech here.

Quote of the Day

A timely quote in the era of Iraq, a demolished New Orleans, strict constructionist Supremes and on-going social program savaging.

“‘[Y]our celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

- Frederick Douglass, ’What to the Slave is the 4th of July?‘

On-line discussion of the speech here.