"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 sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, 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. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."

Not much has changed in the over 100 years that Frederick Douglass delivered this speech. Only the facts that more and more of us are becoming inslaved to rich, corporate America, we are well on our way to tyranny and don't even realize it, and, at this stage, a lot of Americans don't have enough education to figure any of this out. I used to wonder how Germany was so easily persuaded to follow Hitler down a path of tyranny and destruction. Not anymore. Do something about it.