 | David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin vail to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There ia not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these... | |
 | James Monroe Gregory - Abolitionists - 1893 - 270 pages
...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...on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and more bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour." At the commencement exercises... | |
 | 1926 - 384 pages
...sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere boirtbast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." Douglass early advocated the enlistment of free negroes and slaves in the ranks as soldiers rather... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - Convict labor - 1982 - 233 pages
...vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States,... | |
 | Kinfe Abraham - African Americans - 1991 - 306 pages
...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of...up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Federick Douglas1 I've been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots... | |
 | Nigel Smith - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 54 pages
...and thanksgivings, with all your religious parades and solemnity, are to him, mere fraud, deception and hypocrisy* - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. (Extract from speech by Frederick Douglass, 4 July 1852) • What does this chapter tell us about the... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - Religion - 220 pages
...is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; . . . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." Quoted in The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1619-1983, ed. Milton Meltzer (New York:... | |
 | Genevieve Fabre, Robert O'Meally - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 332 pages
...American Slave, is your Fourth of July?" — best exemplifies black ambivalence and dissatisfaction: "Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings...to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."10 This document is one of the most compelling antebellum expressions of discontent and outrage.... | |
 | Steven Mintz - History - 1995 - 214 pages
...perpetuated slavery. For slaves, he declared in a speech in 1852, the Fourth of July was "mere bombast and fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." During the Civil War, he encouraged the Lincoln administration's gradual steps toward making emancipation... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Philosophy - 1996 - 764 pages
...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty, all heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." See Frederick Douglass, speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1 852, in Carter G. Woodson, ed., Negro... | |
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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 heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality,... 
