an open letter from frederick douglass to george w. bush?
September 5th, 2005 by admin
’[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation 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.’
Frederick Douglass, in a speech called ‘What to the Slave is the 4th of July,’ 1841
courtesy of zmag.org