 What, 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 to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty...  Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom - Side 72av Tony Monchinski - 2008 - 227 siderBegrenset visning - Om denne boken
 | 1926 - 384 sider
...American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 sider
...reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham;...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1993 - 548 sider
...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 to which...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - 220 sider
...wrote in an article, "What Is Your Fourth of July to Me?": "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more...your national greatness, swelling vanity; . . . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 sider
...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 to which...swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty, all heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality,... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 sider
...a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty of which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;... | |
 | Alternatives - 1996 - 294 sider
...July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year the gross injustice to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration...a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license..." Let Douglass's statement be a reminder that while the creation of the United States is unique, it is... | |
 | Gregory S. Jay - 1997 - 260 sider
...pointedly delivered his speech on the fifth of July 1852: What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 sider
...American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all the other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;... | |
 | Harry Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel - 1997 - 438 sider
...Douglass's famous speech, "What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July?" Cleaver quotes Douglass: "To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty,...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery"... | |
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