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I like my area sometimes.
“Rochester City Council rebukes Trump's lake renaming as 'flaccid stunt'”
“In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’”
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I like my area sometimes.
“Rochester City Council rebukes Trump's lake renaming as 'flaccid stunt'”
“In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’”
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I like my area sometimes.
“Rochester City Council rebukes Trump's lake renaming as 'flaccid stunt'”
“In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’”
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I like my area sometimes.
“Rochester City Council rebukes Trump's lake renaming as 'flaccid stunt'”
“In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’”
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I like my area sometimes.
“Rochester City Council rebukes Trump's lake renaming as 'flaccid stunt'”
“In Rochester, N.Y., businesses and officials defy Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming ‘stunt’”
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Afternoon walk to High Falls. #rochesterny #photography
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Afternoon walk to High Falls. #rochesterny #photography
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Afternoon walk to High Falls. #rochesterny #photography
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Afternoon walk to High Falls. #rochesterny #photography
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Afternoon walk to High Falls. #rochesterny #photography
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👁️ Hello all high school/college/graduate students -- Student Festival Passes are now available!
These offer all the same access/benefits as the regular full pass, but discounted for growing minds...
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👁️ Hello all high school/college/graduate students -- Student Festival Passes are now available!
These offer all the same access/benefits as the regular full pass, but discounted for growing minds...
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👁️ Hello all high school/college/graduate students -- Student Festival Passes are now available!
These offer all the same access/benefits as the regular full pass, but discounted for growing minds...
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👁️ Hello all high school/college/graduate students -- Student Festival Passes are now available!
These offer all the same access/benefits as the regular full pass, but discounted for growing minds...
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On July 5th 1852, exactly 174 years ago today, Frederick Douglass gave a speech at Corinthian Hall here in #RochesterNY, at a gathering of the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. His words were blunt and honest, pointing out the hypocrisy about the laudable ideals of liberty and justice promised in the Declaration of Independence. He forced his audience to confront the truth, that the high-minded assertion that "all men are created equal", was NOT actually being extended to all.
The speech is known under the title "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" It is well worth reading again now, on this July 5th.
Here's the complete text of the speech, as published in a pamphlet at the time:
https://archive.org/details/Douglass_July_Oration/page/n1/mode/2up
And here are some central excerpts from the speech, read by some of Douglass's descendants: