American Democracy

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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. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)

“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)