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From YouTube: July 4th Celebrations 2018
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Boston, also known as the "Cradle of Liberty," celebrates America's 242nd birthday this 4th of July. Mayor Walsh joins in the festivities, which include a parade of minutemen, confetti and singing, ending with an oration at Faneuil Hall.
A
The
Winston
Churchill
once
said
that
American
democracy
is
the
worst
form
of
government,
except
for
all
other
forms
that
have
been
tried.
It
is
the
initiation
of
that
democracy,
the
signing
of
the
Declaration
of
Independence
that
we
celebrate
here
in
Boston
today,
as
we
have
for
two
hundred
and
forty-two
years.
A
A
A
The
ancient
and
honorable
Artillery
Company
of
Massachusetts
holds
the
distinction
of
being
the
oldest
chartered
military
organization
in
North
America
and
the
third
oldest
chartered
military
organization
in
the
world,
and
now
commander
Lieutenant
Colonel
Charles
J
McCarthy
jr..
Captain
of
the
ancient
honourable
our
total
company.
Finally,
have
your
adjutant
from
the
Arthur
o
Malley
called
the
parade
to
attention
and
present
arms
for
the
singing
of
our
national
anthem
by
nine
Daniel
Whiteside,
accompanied
by
the
zarbor
military
band,
to
be
followed
by
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance.
B
C
C
A
D
Thank
you
very
much
colonel
and
thank
you
for
what
you
do.
I
want
to
welcome
and
thank
all
the
servicemen
and
women
and
families
that
are
here.
I
also
want
to
thank
all
the
gold
star
families
that
are
here
for
your
sacrifice
and
to
let
you
know
that
on
a
day
like
today,
we
are,
we
are
with
you
in
your
hearts.
D
As
the
colonel
said,
we're
going
to
be
visiting
some
very
historic
sites
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
really
that
the
thought
of
today
is
remembering
those
Patriots
who
fought
for
our
country
for
a
new
country
we're
going
to
reflect
on
what
that
means
to
be
American
today
and
it's
important
for
us
that
we
continue
to
move
on
there
in
2018.
We
must
reaffirm
our
commitment
with
American
values
and,
what's
most
important
for
America,
where
we
stand
up
for
what
is
right.
D
D
I'm
not
gonna
talk
long
because
it's
hot,
we
have
a
parade,
but
we
are
gonna
talk
across
the
way,
but
today
is
a
little
bit
of
a
bittersweet
day
for
all
of
us.
Colonel
woman
who
is
at
this
microphone
has
been
the
master
of
ceremonies
for
us
for
10
consecutive
years
here
in
City
Hall
celebrating
the
4th
of
July.
A
A
Charles
McCarthy
jr.,
please
have
your
oxygen
Arthur
mouthy
film.
The
parade
participating
in
today's
parade
are
the
Boston
Police
Special
Operations
Division
elected
officials
from
the
city
of
Boston,
the
state
and
military
officials.
This
Arbor
military
band,
the
ancient
Honourable
Artillery
Company
under
the
command
of
Lieutenant
Colonel
Charles
J,
McCarthy
jr.,
captain
commanding
the
Middlesex
County
a
volunteer
fight
and
drum
corps.
The
Billerica
colonial
middle
man
encounter
net
company
at
the
Wilmington
Minuteman
Company.
A
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.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
welcome
to
Boston,
as
we
celebrate
the
two
hundred
and
forty
second
anniversary
of
the
signing
of
the
Declaration
of
Independence.
A
A
E
B
F
F
A
G
The
second
writer
came
to
Boston
and
they
came
to
the
ancient
and
honorable
artillery
company
here
at
Faneuil
Hall,
and
they
gave
the
declaration
to
Colonel
Thomas
Kraft
in
1776
every
year.
Since
then,
the
captain
commanding
of
the
ancient
and
honorable
Artillery
Company,
the
oldest
military
organization
in
the
Western
Hemisphere
in
the
third
oldest
in
the
world,
has
read
the
Declaration
from
this
balcony.
Now,
when
the
first
Colonel
read
the
Declaration,
he
had
his
lieutenants
with
them.
G
Those
lieutenants
were
armed
because
in
behind
in
this
vent
in
this
old
Statehouse
was
the
generals
and
admirals
of
the
British
Navy
and
Ammi.
Yet
he
stood
here
and
read
our
independence.
Why
they
watched
so
today,
I
hope,
I
do
as
good
as
he
has,
and
here
is
us,
the
Declaration
of
Independence,
when,
in
the
course
of
human
events,
it
becomes
necessary
for
one
people
to
dissolve
the
political
bands
which
have
connected
them
with
another
and
to
assume
the
powers
of
the
earth.
G
Prudence
indeed,
will
dictate
that
governments
long
established
should
not
be
changed
for
light
in
transient
causes,
and,
accordingly,
all
experience
hath
shown
that
mankind
are
more
disposed
to
suffer
while
evils
are
sufferable
than
to
right
themselves
by
abolishing
the
forms
to
which
they
are
accustomed.
But
when
a
long
train
of
abuses
and
usurpations
pursuing
invariably
the
same
object,
evinces
a
design
to
reduce
them
under
absolute
despotism.
It
is
their
right.
It
is
their
duty
to
throw
off
such
government
and
to
provide
new
guards
for
their
future
security.
G
Such
has
been
the
patient
sufferance
of
these
colonies
and
such
as
now
the
necessity
which
constrains
them
to
alter
their
former
systems
of
government.
The
history
of
the
present
King
of
Great
Britain
is
a
history
of
repeated
injuries
and
usurpations
all
having
in
direct
object,
the
establishment
of
an
absolute
Tyranny
over
these
states.
To
prove
this.
Let
facts
be
submitted
to
a
candid
world.
He
has
refused
to
assent
to
laws
the
most
wholesome
and
necessary
for
the
public
good.
G
He
has
forbidden
his
governor's
to
pass
laws
of
immediate
and
pressing
importance
unless
suspended
in
their
operation
till
his
assent
should
be
obtained
and
when
so
suspended,
he
is
utterly
neglected
to
attend
to
them.
He
has
refused
to
pass
other
laws
for
the
accommodation
of
large
districts
of
people
unless
those
people
would
relinquish
the
right
of
representation
in
the
legislature,
a
right
inestimable
to
tyrants.
Only.
He
is
called
together
legislative
bodies
at
places,
unusual,
uncomfortable
and
distant
from
the
depository
of
record
public
records
for
sole
purpose
of
fatiguing
them
into
compliance
with
his
measures.
G
He
is
dissolved
representative
houses
repeatedly
for
opposing
with
manly
firmness
his
invasion
of
the
rights
of
the
people.
He
has
refused
for
a
long
time
at
the
such
dissolutions
to
cause
others
to
be
elected
whereby
the
legislative
powers
incapable
of
annihilation
have
returned
to
the
people
at
large
for
their
exercise.
The
state
remaining
in
the
meantime
exposed
to
all
the
dangers
of
invasion
from
without
and
convulsions
within.
G
He
has
endeavored
to
prevent
the
population
of
these
states
for
that
purpose,
obstructing
the
laws
for
naturalization
of
foreigners
refusing
to
pass
others
to
encourage
their
migrations
hither
and
raising
the
conditions
of
new
appropriations
of
lands.
He
has
obstructed
the
administration
of
justice
by
refusing
his
assent
to
laws
for
establishing
judiciary
powers,
he
had
made
judges
dependent
on
his
will
alone
for
the
tenure
of
their
offices
in
the
amount
of
payment
of
their
salaries.
G
He
has
erected
a
multitude
of
new
offices
and
sent
hither
swarms
of
officers
to
harass
our
people
and
eat
out
their
substance.
He
has
kept
among
us
in
times
of
peace,
standing
armies
without
the
consent
of
our
legislators.
He
has
affected
to
render
the
military
independent
of
and
superior
to
the
civil
power.
G
Establishing
therein
an
arbitrary
government
in
a
lodging
his
boundaries
so
as
to
render,
at
once
an
example
and
fit
instrument
for
introducing
the
same
absolute
rule
into
these
colonies.
But
taking
away
our
charters
abolishing
our
most
valuable
laws
in
ultimate
altering,
fundamentally
the
forms
of
our
governments,
while
suspending
our
own
legislatures
in
declaring
themselves
invested
with
power
to
legislate
for
us
in
all
cases
whatsoever.
G
He
has
abdicated
government
here
by
declaring
us
out
of
his
protection
in
waging
war
against
us.
He
has
plundered
our
seas,
ravaged
our
coasts,
burnt
our
towns
and
destroyed
the
lives
of
our
people.
He
is
at
this
time
transporting
large
armies
of
foreign
mercenaries
to
complete
the
works
of
death
desolation
and
tyranny
already
begun
with
circumstances
of
Cruelty
&
perfidy,
scarcely
paralleled
in
the
most
barbarous
ages
and
totally
unworthy
of
the
head
of
a
civilized
nation.
G
He
has
constrained
our
fellow
citizens
taken
captive
on
high
seas,
to
bear
arms
against
their
country
to
become
the
executioner's
of
their
friends
in
brethren
or
to
fall
themselves
by
their
hands.
He
has
excited
domestic
insurrections
among
us
and
has
endeavoured
to
bring
on
the
inhabitants
of
our
frontiers.
The
merciless
Indian
savages,
whose
known
rule
of
warfare
is
an
undistinguished
destruction
of
all
ages,
sexes
and
conditions.
In
every
stage
of
these
oppressions.
We
have
petitioned
for
redress.
G
In
the
most
humble
terms,
our
repeated
petitions
have
been
answered
only
by
repeated
injury,
a
prince,
whose
character
character
is
thus
marked
by
every
act
which
may
define
a
tyrant
is
unfit
to
be
the
ruler
of
free
people.
No
I
have
we
been
wanting
inattention
to
our
British
brethren.
We
have
warned
them
from
time
to
time
of
attempts
by
their
legislature
to
extend
an
unwarrantable
jurisdiction
over
us.
We
have
reminded
them
of
the
circumstances
of
our
emigration
and
settlements.
G
G
We
must
therefore
acquiesce
in
the
necessity
which
denounces
our
separation
and
hold
them
as
we
hold
the
rest
of
the
mankind
enemies
in
war
in
peace,
friends.
We
therefore
the
representatives
of
the
United
States
of
America
in
general,
Congress,
assembled
appealing
to
the
supreme
judge
of
the
world
for
the
rest
sets
Institute
of
our
intentions.
Do
in
the
name
and
by
authority
of
the
good
people
of
these
colonies,
solemnly
publish
and
declare
that
these
United
colonies
are
and
of
right
ought
to
be
free
and
independent
states.
G
That
they
are
absolved
from
all
allegiance
to
the
British
crown
and
that
all
political
connections
between
them
in
the
state
of
Great
Britain
is
and
ought
to
be,
totally
dissolved
and
that
as
free
and
independent
states,
they
have
full
power
to
levy
war,
conclude
peace,
contract
alliances,
establish
Commons,
Commerce
and
to
do
all
other
acts
and
things
which
Independent
States
may
of
right
to
do
and
for
the
support
of
this
declaration
with
a
firm
reliance
on
the
protection
of
divine
providence.
We
mutually
pledge
to
each
other
Our
Lives,
our
Fortunes
and
our
sacred
honor.
A
G
A
D
They
own
Colonel
Wellman
to
the
veterans
service
members,
our
military
families
here.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
service
to
our
country,
Charles
McCarthy
in
the
ancient
Honourable
Artillery
Company.
Thank
you
as
well.
Welcome
everyone
to
historic,
finial
hall
and
happy
fourth
of
July.
As
we
said
242
years
ago
today,
the
Declaration
of
Independence
was
signed
and
sealed
its
signatures
included
two
future
presidents,
Thomas
Jefferson
of
Virginia
and
John
Adams
of
Massachusetts.
It
also
had
two
parts:
the
natives
named
John
Hancock
and
Samuel
Adams.
Who
statue
stand
outside
this
fall?
D
There
were
leaders
in
the
Sons
of
Liberty
movement
that
resisted
tyranny
and
won
a
new
nation.
This
was
a
revolution
started
by
ordinary
men
and
women
in
Boston's
streets
in
their
homes
in
meeting
halls,
including
venule
home.
It's
why
we
call
the
cradle
of
Liberty
and
it
didn't
stop
there.
This
is
the
hall
where
the
movement
to
abolish
slavery
at
a
home.
This
is
the
hall
where
we
swear
in
new
citizens
in
the
heart
of
our
city.
That's
right!
Now,
28%
of
our
residents
are
foreign-born,
so
our
streets.
D
D
We
applied
a
Boston's
role
in
the
founding
of
our
nation
and
we're
even
more
proud
of
the
upholding
the
principles
of
our
nation
was
founded
on
in
the
declaration.
They
said
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
created
equal.
That
means
every
single
person
is
born
with
the
same
rights
in
government
exists
to
secure
those
rights.
That's
the
principle
that
our
nation
was
founded
on.
D
It
means
that
our
nation
is
not
a
race
or
an
ethnicity
or
religion.
It's
not
one
of
a
kind
one
of
a
person,
it's
an
ideal,
about
what
unites
all
people,
the
ideal
of
liberty
and
justice
for
all
our
country
has
not
always
lived
up
tonight
at
that
idea.
But
what
makes
America
great
is
our
never-ending
pursuit
of
a
more
perfect
union.
It's
the
fight
for
civil
rights,
it's
the
fight
for
marriage,
equality,
it's
the
fight
for
Economic
Opportunity.
It
hasn't
been
a
straight
path
forward,
but
that
wasn't
intended
to
be
a
straight
path
forward.
D
There
were
setbacks,
and
even
today,
but
the
octave
history
bends
towards
freedom.
The
world
has
rallied
to
America's
founding
idea,
and
patriotism
today
must
be
defined
our
willingness
to
keep
it
and
fight
for
it.
There
is
no
greater
test
of
our
commitment
to
this
idea,
then
how
we
respond
to
those
who
come
to
our
nation
seeking
freedom.
I
know
this
is
sure,
because
my
parents
came
to
this
country
as
immigrants.
D
D
We
need
a
fair
and
orderly
system
for
dealing
with
immigration
and
Asylum,
but
it
must
be
a
system,
that's
designed
and
operated
with
the
care
and
reverence
worthy
of
the
highest
principles,
because
that's
what's
at
stake,
so
it
must
be
a
system
that
respects
human
dignity.
It
allows
understanding
and
flexibility
and
an
extends
due
process,
in
other
words,
one
that
honors
the
rights
that
we
celebrate
today
here
in
the
United
States
of
America.
D
Needless
to
say,
the
scene
from
the
southern
border
in
recent
weeks
have
not
lived
up
to
that
ideal
and
the
travel
ban
aimed
that
one
religion
does
not
live
up
to
that
ideal
either.
This
is
not
a
matter
of
partisanship.
This
is
not
a
question
of
patriotism.
It's
not
a
question
of
who's
winning
and
not
a
question
of
you.
It's
normally
it's
a
question
of
human
rights,
the
faces
of
those
children
from
Mexico
and
Guatemala
and
Honduras
and
El
Salvador.
D
Those
are
the
faces
of
our
founding
their
founding
impulse,
the
living
ideals
of
America
yearning,
with
every
fiber
of
their
being
for
liberty
in
the
pursuit
of
happiness.
It's
our
sacred
duty
to
our
nation
and
to
our
conscience
to
treat
them
with
the
care
and
disrespects
that
they
deserve.
So
this
Independence
Day.
Let
us
resolve
to
the
working
together
as
Americans
towards
a
more
humane
immigration
system.
In
a
more
perfect
union.
D
Now
it's
my
honor
to
introduce
someone
who
has
worked
to
uphold
those
values
in
our
own
neighborhoods.
The
independence
duration
is
a
tradition
as
old
as
this
Republican
from
John
Quincy
Adams
in
1793
to
Joe
Moakley
in
1972,
from
John
F
Fitzgerald
in
1896
to
John
F
Kennedy
in
1946,
from
Louise
Brandeis
in
1915
to
Alma
Lewis
in
1975.
D
The
lists
of
speakers
tell
a
story
of
our
history.
Today's
speaker
absolutely
belongs
on
that
list
for
the
impact
that
she's
making
in
our
city,
as
she
is
also
very
special
to
us
in
City
Hall,
because
she
has
been
on
colleague
working
with
us
in
the
office
of
economic
development.
Over
the
last
four
years,
dr.
Carolyn
Crockett
grew
up
in
Boston
in
the
upins
corner
and
the
Karman
square
Seck
areas
of
Dorchester.
D
He'll
wish
he
heard
the
bachelor's
degree
in
the
Master
of
Arts
in
religion
and
eventually
a
PhD
in
American
Studies
along
the
way
she
picked
up
a
master's
degree
in
geography
from
the
London
School
of
Economics
into
a
post
doctoral
work
at
MIT
she's,
an
underachiever
as
you
can
hear,
she's
the
father
of
my
town,
an
organization
and
highest
high
school
students
to
research,
their
local
histories
and
produce
walking
tours
for
public
audiences.
My
town
has
created
over
3,000
youth
jobs,
the
National
Commons
and
humanities,
called
it
one
of
the
10
best.
D
You
meant
humanities
programs
in
America
for
the
last
4
years.
She
has
been
the
director
of
Economic
Policy,
Research
and
small
business
development
in
our
administration
at
City
Hall.
In
that
role
she
has
overseen
the
development
of
the
first
citywide
small
business
plan
at
Boston's,
first
Economic
and
inclusion
agenda
among
her
many
accomplishments.
She's
worked
as
strengthening
our
residency
jobs
policy,
which
helps
make
sure
Boston's
historic
growth
is
creating
more
opportunities
for
our
residents
for
women
and
people
of
color
in
our
city.
D
As
you
see
our
cranes
when
it
comes
down
to
when
we
talk
about
building
the
economy
that
works
for
everyone,
we
talk
about
making
sure
the
idea
of
America
is
a
reality
for
people
who've
been
shut
out,
Caitlyn
is
doing
that
work.
Carolyn
excuse
me,
is
doing
that
work.
It's
worth.
It
takes
her
from
the
highest
reaches
of
an
academic
study
to
the
humblest
of
neighborhood
businesses
into
all
of
it.
She
brings
warmth,
compassion
and
good
humor.
Her
work
ethic
is
incredible.
D
She's
even
found
time
to
publish
a
groundbreaking
book
about
Boston's
history
called
people
before
highways,
Boston's
activists,
urban
planning
in
a
new
movement
for
a
city
making.
We
are
not
surprised
that
MIT
came
back
for
her
and
she'll
start.
This
fall
as
a
lecturer
in
the
Department
of
urban
studies
and
planning,
certainly
we're
going
to
miss
her
in
the
city
of
Boston,
but
we
know
she's
going
to
continue
to
work
to
strengthen
Boston
and
America
through
her
work,
and
we
can't
wait
to
hear
what
she
has
to
do.
I
Thank
You
mayor
for
the
assist
and
an
incredibly
incredibly
warm
and
overwhelming
introduction.
It
has
been
my
great
honor
to
serve
this
mayor
and
to
serve
this
incredible
city,
Thank,
You,
Colonel
Wellman,
for
taking
such
good
care
of
us
all
day
today.
Amazing.
Thank
you.
Lieutenant
colonel
McCarthy
for
all
of
your
leadership
and
your
service
to
us
thanks
also
to
Dana
Whiteside,
whose
voice
is
just.
I
I
My
beauty
Obama
stayed
with
us,
protecting
us
serving
us
and
keeping
us
together
and
safe.
Thank
you
so
much
a
special
greetings
to
all
of
our
servicemen
and
women
and
our
military
families
who
are
in
our
mix.
Your
service
is
how
we
can
celebrate
and
stand
here
today.
So
we
thank
you.
We
can
never.
Thank
you
enough.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
I
So
we
are
here
today
to
mark
the
historic
road
to
a
new
kind
of
freedom
struggle.
Holland
was
born
on
this
day
to
be
sure,
but
it
was
tentative,
uncertain,
full
of
conflict,
tension
doubt
and
ambition.
I
have
been
asked
to
join
an
inspiring
and
powerful
list
of
speakers
to
reflect
on
the
meaning
of
America's,
most
enduring
values.
On
this
day
noted
as
the
nation's
birthday,
I
am
the
230
v
speaker
for
this
public
Boston
tradition.
That's
a
lot
of
speakers.
You
can
clap.
I
I
I
stand
here
to
reflect
on
our
historic
struggle
to
define
freedom
as
well
as
to
remind
us
that
our
nation
requires
requires
requires
unwavering
vigilance.
Now
as
it
did,
then
the
creation
of
the
United
States
was
a
fight
to
the
death
among
sovereign
nations,
of
the
Iroquois
Confederacy,
the
robbing
of
the
Cherokee,
the
creek,
the
French,
the
Spanish,
the
Dutch
and
the
British
to
name
a
few.
The
results
of
these
fights
are
well
documented.
I
Everyone
from
statesmen
to
unskilled
of
skilled
laborers,
including
engravers
printers
silversmiths,
Goldsmith's,
masons
and
brewers,
join
together
to
forge
a
revolutionary
path.
But
then
again,
you
know
all
this,
but
do
you
as
much
as
the
July
4th
holiday
is
about
a
revolutions
birth?
It
is
also
a
of
reckoning
for
the
day.
Welcome
to
the
granary
burial
ground
yesterday
in
preparation
for
today,
I
thought
about
all
of
the
statesmen,
women,
children
and
laborers
buried
there
and
I
wondered.
Have
we
done
our
part?
I
My
great
great
great
grandfather,
Yancy
Young,
worked
as
a
blacksmith
and
was
a
slave
and
a
self-taught
preacher
in
Young's,
Township
South
Carolina
this
day
does
not
commemorate
a
day
of
freedom
for
him,
his
parents
or
the
estimated
500,000
African
slaves
living
in
the
thirteen
colonies.
The
road
to
emancipation
of
America
slaves
was
made
longer
and
harder
by.
The
Declaration
of
Independence
is
failure
to
address
the
moral
contradiction
of
slavery
in
a
free
nation.
I
An
earlier
and
abandoned
draft
of
the
Declaration
assail
King
George
for
violating
the
quote
sacred
Rite
of
life
of
Liberty
in
the
person's
of
a
distant
people
who
never
offended
him
here,
slavery
is
described
as
a
cruel
war
against
human
nature.
This
version
of
the
Declaration
of
Independence
was
rejected
by
holders
who
resolved
to
remove
all
references
to
slavery
from
the
documents
final
draft.
This
omission
came
with
a
great
price,
walking
the
winding
path
of
the
granary
burrial
ground
again
this
morning,
with
many
of
you,
I
asked
myself.
I
Many
of
us
were
just
outside
with
the
balcony
of
the
old
Statehouse
and
heard
these
wonderful
words
read
to
us
and
I'll
share.
A
few
now
quote
the
history
of
the
present
King
is
a
history
of
repeated
injuries
and
usurpations
all
having
in
direct
object,
the
establishment
of
an
absolute
Tyranny
over
these
states.
To
prove
this.
Let
facts
be
submitted
to
a
candid
world.
He
has
refused
to
assent
to
laws
the
most
wholesome
and
necessary
for
the
public
good.
He
has
forbidden
the
governor's
to
pass
laws
of
immediate
and
pressing
importance.
I
He
has
called
together
legislative
bodies
at
places
unusual,
uncomfortable
and
distant.
He
has
dissolved
representative
houses
repeatedly.
He
has
endeavoured
to
prevent
the
population
of
these
states
for
that
purpose,
obstructing
the
laws
for
naturalization
of
foreigners
refusing
to
pass
others
to
encourage
their
migration
hither.
He
has
obstructed
the
administration
of
justice
by
refusing
his
assent
to
laws
for
establishing
judiciary
powers,
he
has
made
judges
dependent
on
his
will
alone.
I
He
has
erected
a
multitude
of
new
offices.
He
has
kept
among
us
in
times
of
peace,
standing
armies
without
the
consent
of
our
legislatures.
He
has
combined
with
others,
to
subject
us
to
a
jurisdiction
foreign
to
our
Constitution
and
unacknowledged
by
our
laws,
giving
his
assent
to
their
acts
of
pretended
legislation
for
cutting
of
our
trade
with
all
parts
of
the
world
for
imposing
taxes
on
us
without
our
consent
for
taking
away
our
charters,
abolishing
our
most
valuable
laws
and
altering
fundamentally,
the
forms
of
our
governments.
I
I
For
this
nation
forged
in
the
fight
against
unfreedom,
a
challenge
us
to
renew
our
board
resolve
to
stand
in
the
face
of
our
fears
and
stand
taller
than
the
smallest
part
of
ourselves,
the
small
shadowy
parts
of
our
character
that
make
us
shrink
and
convince
us
that
there
is
not
enough
space
resource,
land
or
opportunity
for
all
of
us.
The
small
small
small,
shadowy
parts
of
our
national
imagination
have
always
been
there,
fearful,
bullying
and
prone
to
violence.
I
As
Frederick
Douglas
tells
us
in
his
famed
oration,
what
to
the
slave
is
the
4th
of
July.
He
writes
the
signers
of
the
Declaration
of
Independence
were
peace
men,
but
they
did
not
shrink,
but
they
did
not
shrink,
but
they
did
not
shrink
from
agitating
against
oppression
with
them.
Nothing
was
settled
that
was
not
right
with
them.
Justice,
liberty
and
humanity
were
final,
not
slavery
and
oppression
on
our
best
and
I
do
believe
this.
I
This
is
our
charge
from
this
day.
This
is
our
fundamental
work.
The
struggle
continues.
Our
work
is
clear
and
clearly
necessary.
Our
vigilance
is
required
to
make
this
country
the
country
that
we
know
we
deserve,
that
we
need,
and
that
has
been
died,
for
that
has
been
fought
for
that
has
been
delivered
to
us.
It
is
our
responsibility
to
hold
this
gem.
This
treasure
this
gift
up
forward
out
and
shared.