Mock Celebration

Famous quotes containing the words mock and/or celebration:

“Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)