Specificity Over Vagueness
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth 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.
— Frederick Douglass
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