What, to the American slave, is your 4th 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; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.- Frederick Douglas 

          
          In this passage from the great Douglas he clearly condemns the the way the American society works and how ironically they hold great ideologies but yet somehow seem to not have a problem with slavery. He criticized American ideology by saying it was very inconsistent.  Freedom was not for ALL people, though it seems to have great roots in it.
          This particular exert I found to be very profound, it truly shows Mr. Douglas discontent and frustration with the current civil rights situation for black people- it was basically non existent.  His attack and clear demand  for civil rights and freedom for slaves was made clear in this particular passage for the is no greater accusation than denouncing of a wrong being covered by hypocrisy.  It is actually very intriguing how the United States really pride itself in being such a free country where the rights of ALL people were protected, but were they ALL really protected? That very specific preference over whom was to fall under this freedom was indeed very unfair and hypocritical.