In Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? he speaks from the slave’s point of view of celebrating the fourth of …show more content…
Our society has come so far from where we first started we shouldn’t stop here. Douglass and Red Jacket didn’t speak up about oppression for no reason they wanted to see change. They made these speeches to be directed towards their audience, white people but now it’s a message to all of us. The message is to give everyone an equal opportunity at life, liberty, prosperity, and justice. These are inalienable rights that the Declaration Independence states everyone has once they are born. So why are we still in the position where one group of people have a better chance at like than others. For the future I hope to see the principles that the Declaration Independence state start to be held in everyday life instead of just on a piece of