Thought for Sunday, 07/04:
"This 4th of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice. I must mourn.... 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 shouts of Liberty and equality, hallow mocked, your prayers and hymns your sermons and Thanksgivings with all your religious parade in solemnity are... mere bombast, fraud, deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes, which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth, guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour." ~ Frederick Douglass

Thought for Saturday, 07/03:
"When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst." ~ H. Allen Smith

Thought for Sunday, 07/04:
"This 4th of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice. I must mourn.... 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 shouts of Liberty and equality, hallow mocked, your prayers and hymns your sermons and Thanksgivings with all your religious parade in solemnity are... mere bombast, fraud, deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes, which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth, guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour." ~ Frederick Douglass

Thought for Saturday, 07/03:
"When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst." ~ H. Allen Smith