“…your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoycing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted imprudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and soleminity, are to him [here the slave, but it could be to any other country we invade] mere bombast, 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 guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival…”

Frederick Douglass’s words speak for me.