Which sentence BEST summarizes the speaker's central idea about his country? There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than the United
States at this very hour.
Let me warn you, that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation (Babylon) whose crimes,
towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the Almighty, burying that nation in ruin.
Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why have I been asked to speak here today? What
have I or those I represent to do with your national independence?
Yet I shall not say one word that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice or who is not
at heart a slave-holder, shall not admit to be right and just.