Danny Glover Reads Frederick Douglass

Actor Danny Glover reads abolitionist Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July Speech, 1852" on October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.)

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[walkdeep]

i just read narratives of frederick douglass, and it was incredible

[jimhack3]

Powerful!

[dave warren]

try reading his biography and you will learn

[guyfroml]

I find it ironic that Glover, a man who proudly associates with and agrees with radical socialist and communist dictators in other countries, men who do all they can to repress freedom and liberties by imprisoning or murdering their opposition, is going to advocate to us the principles of Douglass? Like I said, pure irony.

[imhotep38]

Not true, he had an education, the one he gave himself. He went to the best university, the school of hard knocks. Look at the root of the word "University'. It is the word "universe". To get an education one need only study the Universe. That is what Frederick Douglass did.

[ermonski]

I'm getting too old for this shit.

[fishyface07]

He learned to read and write from white children, and he continued to read every piece of writing he could get his hands on. It's amazing what someone can do in the face of adversity if he truly desires it.

[billionkek]

how can a slave without any education speak so eloquently? I'm lost! I'm curious how many revision this "poem" had.

[QueenDean35]

Chris Rock said nothing new. Kudos to him for being bold enough to say for this generation though.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Somebody give this video to the retarded assholes that are pissed at what Chris Rock said on his twitter account. Douglass summed it up and some.

[Eddythebeast666]

Holy crap!