As we all celebrate the 4th of July in recognition of this great nation, let us reflect upon three great wrongs which America has faced and fought to right. Let us never rest until all three wrongs are forever erased from the four corners of the world. America is still the shining light. The beacon on the hill to the rest of the world. Let no political ideology ever lead us astray from America's noble goals.

1: POVERTY

The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can be abolished. How long shall we ignore this under-developed nation in our midst? How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long"
(Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, 1962)

2: SLAVERY

"Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to understand?"
(Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" July 5, 1852)

3: ANTI-SEMITICISM

"Hath not a Jew eyes?
Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
If you prick us, do we not bleed, if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
(Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice)