[Mb-civic] Let's Proudly Hail the Rights of All - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Let's Proudly Hail the Rights of All

By Colbert I. King

Saturday, July 2, 2005; Page A29

Principles of liberty and justice always draw a focus on the Fourth of 
July. In 1852 Frederick Douglass used the occasion to bring attention to 
the gross injustice of slavery, telling an anti-slavery audience in 
Rochester, N.Y.: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity 
and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by 
me. . . . This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I 
must mourn."

On this Fourth of July, what must Muslims in America be thinking? Do 
they feel within or beyond the pale of our national celebration?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101786.html?nav=hcmodule
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