on 4th July – 7 scores and 4 years later
Thomas Jefferson 1776, in Declaration of Independence:
| “ | We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. |
” |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848, the Declaration of Sentiments:
| “ | We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. |
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Abraham Lincoln 1863 in Gettysburg Address:
| “ | Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
” |
Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 I Have a Dream speech:
| “ | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ |
” |
Sadly,
Seven scores and four years since Lincoln reminded America,
declarations have remained only as documents
the ink gradually fading on the paper,
addresses have long become silent
so has the speeches, dreams
have turned to nightmares,
nothing has changed.
[Picture from: http://www.aiacetorino.it/]
For America believes they are “more equal” than others.
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