African American Independence and 4th of July - HAVE WE ARRIVED?

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Frederick Douglass said on July 4, 1852, "What, to the 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 he is the constant victim. 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 denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; 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."

Dr. Martin Luther King said on July 4, 1965, "Are we really taking this thing seriously? ‘All men are created equal.’ And that means that every man who lives in a slum today is just as significant as John D., Nelson, or any other Rockefeller. Every man who lives in the slum is just as significant as Henry Ford. All men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that can’t be separated from you..."

Imam W. Deen Mohammed said on July 4, 2004, "So this 4th of July is not just for modern times, and for the United States of America. The real meaning was with man, thousands of years ago. (It) came with revelation from God. That's where it came, with revelations from God."

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