AMERICANS HAVE A WAY OF IGNORING REALITY - SO DO MOST PEOPLE

"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine." -

Frederick Douglass 

'What, to the American Slave, Is Your 4th of July?'

Independence Day is a fitting time to reflect on the role that grass-roots organizing for social change has played in building this nation.

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