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The Hypocrisy of A Nation
Title: The Hypocrisy of A Nation
Category: History
Details: Words: 2596 | Pages: 11.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Hypocrisy of A Nation
“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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (The Declaration of Independence).
The evident immorality within the institution of slavery and the necessity for its abolition are deeply interwoven into the history of America and are profoundly correlated to the orations of Frederick Douglass. In particular, Douglass’s “…showed first 75 words of 2596 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2596 total…most sacred documents. They command man to treat others as an equal, but he who denies his fellow man personal freedom and the rights of manhood does not truly abide by the laws in which he is supposedly governed. Thus, slavery, instead of sustaining rights, tramples them in the dust, and those Americans who call themselves Christians cannot be so when the words of equality and love, the founding words of the faith, are disregarded.
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