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" To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and... "
Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers - Page 43
by David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 396 pages
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 pages
...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of...fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. . . . "You boast of your love of...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,...fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth...
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Critical Education in the New Information Age

Manuel Castells - Education - 1999 - 194 pages
...Independence Day. rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brassfronted impotence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;...all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him more bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — with a thin veil to cover up which would...
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The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope

Andrew Delbanco - History - 2009 - 157 pages
...said, "Your celebration is a sham . . . your denunciation of tyrants [is] brass fronted impudence . . . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,...Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy."32 The day of reckoning with this truth was repeatedly postponed. It was postponed when...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...hrass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liherty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and bymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere homhast, fraud, deception, impiety, and bypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace...
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A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics

Komozi Woodard - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 356 pages
...your prayers and hymus, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solenmity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy— a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.44 Speaking at one of the antebellum...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of...fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages....
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Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader

Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...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...
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The American Constitutional Experience: Selected Readings & Supreme Court ...

Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...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...
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The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities

Mary C. Turck - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 211 pages
...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of...to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy's thin veil to cover up crimes which w ould disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a...
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