Category Archives: human rights

Speech: “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July?”

by Frederick Douglass, 1852 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. AContinueContinue reading “Speech: “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July?””

Treaty-breakers: The Genocide of the First Peoples by the U.S. Government

Attempting to “reclaim our heritage” by examining the first crimes of the United States government that continue today. “I know of no other instance in history where a great nation has so shamefully violated its oath. Our country must forever bear the disgrace and suffer the retribution of its wrongdoing.”