“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
I’ve written about the inspiring words of Frederick Douglass before. Douglass grew up a slave in Maryland, taught himself to read and write, escaped to New York and then spent a life-well-lived fighting for equality and justice for his black brothers and sisters.
“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.