July 4, 2020
Two years ago, on the 4th of July, the Gazette ran the transcript of a famous speech given by Frederick Douglass in 1852.
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Mankind’s Second Chance
July 4, 2019
By FDR*
It was the hope of those who gave us this Statue and the hope of the American people in receiving it that the Goddess of Liberty and the Goddess of Peace were the same.
July 4, 1957
July 4, 2018
By Thomas Jefferson, et al
Listen to JFK’s July 4, 1957 reading of America’s Declaration of Independence.
Truth to Power
July 4, 2018
by Frederick Douglass
Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens:
He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have.
Life, Liberty, & the pursuit of Happiness
July 4, 2017
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights