Carolina Quotes
See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own language? Hear your language, proclaimed to the world, July 4th, 1776--"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!!"
David Walker Carolinian
Source
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Boston, 1830); Documenting the American South, UNC
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- Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
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- 1830
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“See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own…” David Walker. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E1CD64D559. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e1cd64d559
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Our divine Lord and Master said, “all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.” But an American minister, with the Bible in is hand, holds us and our children in the most abject slavery and wretchedness. Now I ask them, would they like for us to hold them and their children in abject slavery and wretchedness?
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