#all men are created equal

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

She can't be this naive!

#Nikki Haley #Haley #all men are created equal #equal #equality #America #American #history #white #male #land owners #blind #American ideal #race #racism #racist #naive #The Mad Sonneteer #Bud Koenemund #Koenemund

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 3, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUL 3, 2023

And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “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.” For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous slavery by defining “men” as “white men,” and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document. In a world that had been dominated by a small class of rich men for so long that most people simply accepted that they should be forever tied to their status at birth, a group of upstart legislators on the edges of a continent declared that no man was born better than any other.

America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal.

What the founders declared self-evident was not so clear eighty-seven years later, when southern white men went to war to reshape America into a nation in which African Americans, Indigenous Americans, Chinese, and Irish were locked into a lower status than whites. In that era, equality had become a “proposition,” rather than “self-evident.”

“Four score and seven years ago,” Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In 1863, Lincoln explained, the Civil War was “testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” It did, of course. The Confederate rebellion failed. The United States endured, and Americans began to expand the idea that all men are created equal to include Black men, men of color, and eventually women. But just as in the 1850s, we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle, as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, pledged their “Lives, [their] Fortunes and [their] sacred Honor” to defend the idea of human equality. Ever since then, Americans have sacrificed their own fortunes, honor, and even their lives, for that principle. Lincoln reminded Civil War Americans of those sacrifices when he urged the people of his era to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Words to live by in 2023.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Heather Cox Richardson #letters from an american #history #all men are created equal #equality #justice #declaration of independence

[nosferdoc]

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”

— Calvin Coolidge, Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

#quotes #calvin coolidge #independence day #1776 #all men are created equal

[noodlerock56]

The term “radical feminist” is a complete oxymoron because there is nothing at all radical about treating anyone who was born without girl parts like scum. If you really think bullying is the only way to gain respect, you need some serious mental help. I’ve been sexually harassed by a boy before and I don’t hate all boys, so why the hell do these brats?

#feminism is for everybody #stop discriminating #and stop focusing on genitalia because that’s gross #trans rights are human rights #all men are created equal #women's rights #men’s rights #white lives matter #black lives matter #Hispanic lives matter

[americassoldierboy]

All Men Should Be Created Equal, not just white men. Black people, Hispanic people, immigrants all deserve equal rights and to not be shot just for the color of their skin. Women and non-binary people also deserve rights

#common sense #all men are created equal #feminist cowboy

[wolfspaw]

You would not want to be a survivor.

#nuclear war #no winners #all men are created equal

[calicojack1718]

"All Men Are Created Equal" the Liberal Superpower to Defeat Fascism

The research of Karen Stenner on the authoritarian dynamic suggests that non-authoritarians become more liberal when confronted by deteriorating conditions. This tendency has saved us from fascism in the past and will now.

As leaders fail, democracy disappoints, and compatriots test our bonds, non-authoritarians grow less attracted to populist candidates and causes, just like they become more racially inclusive, more politically tolerant, more morally lenient, less harsh and punitive… in general, less eager to use collective authority to control other people’s behaviour. Karen Stenner in Magazine: Essay –…

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#All Men Are Created Equal #Fascism #Heather Cox Richardson #Karen Stenner #Liberal #Republican Party #Super Power

[cafetonki]

All men are created equal

Whether one thing is " better" than the thing to which it is compared is a function of specific relevant context and purpose. No one should be offended by this truth of fact. A Poodle is a dog and so is a German Shepherd, but a Poodle is not the equal of a German Shepherd in nature, nor is this particular existing Poodle equal to that particular existing Poodle in nature. Classification equality is different than equality per se.Īt what point something is classified equal to another thing, for purposes of that classification, is a matter of taxonomy hierarchy and granularity e.g., a man is not equal to a woman classified at the level of reproductive organs, but a man classified as a human being is equal to a woman classified as a human being. A dog is a mammal and so are human beings mammals, but a dog is not a human being. Whether any two things are equal to each other in nature is one question, but then we have the question of equality, not as actual things, but equals as classified. Therefore, two existing particular men may not be equal in size, strength and intelligence, but may be equally classified as men. Animals are not trying to be equal, they are trying to survive. You will note that I avoided saying " Is one human being equal to another?" The reason is because nature does not classify things as such. Existing things have natural rules of attraction and aversion, but classifications, such as that term is used, is a human construct, even of how the term " human being" is defined. In the state of nature, animals do not operate with such contrived stated definitions. No existing man is the equal of any other existing man. We should admit that no two specific actually existing things are equal in nature-that is, as specific particular existing things. The first question is whether actual things are created equal in nature, as an objective fact of reality. It does not really matter if the question is posed to a theist or an atheist. At the point of being created, is any one thing the equal to another? Is 7'4" Andre the Giant the natural equal to 2'11" General Tom Thumb? Are all natural gifts to one thing equal to the natural gifts of any other thing? Nature's God does not even make two snowflakes or two lowly fingerprints equal. Let us take one thing at a time, first nature then law. The more precise issue is: a) whether these rights are granted by the Creator and then perfected by consent or b) whether these rights are not granted by the Creator, but are granted alone by the consent of man. It is that part about it being self-evident that should throw us off a bit, particularly in light of the statement about being created equal and the right to life. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. One the most referenced lines from the Declaration is " all men are created equal.endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life" to wit: 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. Many people believe that the Declaration of Independence referenced a Christian god, but clever separation-of-church-and-state Jefferson (who believed neither in Jesus' divinity nor the Trinity) referenced only the " Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," " the Creator" and " Divine Providence." Constitution, but rather a document of rhetoric and declared rebellion, directed to the King George, III, who believed that his authority was derived from a Christian god. The Declaration of Independence was not a document of governance of men, such as the U.S. The Declaration of Independence is a great literary work, and one of the formative documents of the United States, but, we must remember its purpose. In result, men of sufficient means tended to be balanced human beings, and, from this broad foundation of learning and experience, sprang a font of wisdom. A man in those days tended to be combination of philosopher, business owner, farmer and soldier, by life necessity. Indeed, in those days, the time spent with book learning was based upon the liberal arts classics of history, science, philosophy and literature, including, of course, the most widely read book of all time, The King James Bible. There was no Facebook and Twitter in the Age of Enlightenment. He was an extraordinary man, like many of the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Kennedy’s dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners, JFK remarked: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

#All men are created equal

[mythosophy]

Independence Day 2022

Page 3 of Jefferson’s Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence Today’s quote: “Liberty is part of Spirituality.” Happy Independence Day, right? Sadly, Leftist extremists have rewritten American history to redefine all its founders as bigoted, racist slave-holders. Oppressors, all. America’s founding was not good, but fundamentally evil. Every July 4th I like to reread the Declaration of…

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#All Men are Created Equal #America’s Founding #Aspire #Benjamin Franklin #Civil War #Declaration of Independence #Founding Documents aré Aspirational #Leftist Extremists #Liberty #Slavery #Thomas Jefferson #Wisdom

[miroana]

Roque au Fabii | the Poet of Deimos

#I’m going to say something terrible but I absolutely love him #something about the poet being the last flame of a dying age #I know his beliefs were corrupt to the core and he betrayed his closest friends sentencing them to worse than death #but the way Darrow sees him in morning star is kind of the way I do too #pain. admiration. and that secret third thing (desperation to preserve this fading ember of classical glory and poetic grace) #I adore the paragraph where Roque conducts the symphony of war via a hologram of the space battle while beethoven plays #he breaks my heart because he cannot accept that all men are created equal #it was his unyielding faith that Gold was meant to shepherd humanity into the future no matter the cost that led to his downfall #roque au fabii #red rising #golden son #morning star #the poet of deimos #pierce brown #my art

[devourerofcheesecake]

Men should be written being tortured until they are nothing but a whining mess. We need more women in crime. Nbs need to do more tax evasion. Everyone else gets to be wild animals and drink out of hummingbird feeders.

#I fucking said it #sue me #athena screams into the void #athena is freaking out because reality is oppressive #I don’t support women’s rights I support womens wrongs #I dont see enough tax evasion nbs we need to step up our game I feel insulted #all men are created equal. but considering half our population are douche bags I don’t think that’s a good thing #men get 50 shades of grey’d ig #it’s ok you other weird folk! I made some yummy nectar for you gremlins salmons and dandelions. I love people who don’t fit inside the box #go you lil weirdos be free!!!

[anneslifeinchrist]

Quick reminder that if you are prolife you are being entirely hypocritical in referring to people as "illegals". Every person has a right to life, they are never wrong for existing, their existence cannot by its nature be 'illegal'.

#prolife #prolife for the whole life #I actually don't care if I offend you #people are people and deserving of respect even if you disagree with their actions #right to life #I have said this to my mum's face so don't think I won't say it to anyone else #all men are created equal and have a right to life

[noodlerock56]

Minorities don’t have cooties, women aren’t beaches who should be treated like property, and men aren’t violent perverts. Rather, they’re all people who should be treated with respect.

#social equality #all men are created equal

[lunozapp]

chat

#wile e coyote #splatoon 3 #In Congress #July 4 #1776 #The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America #When in the Course of human events #it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another #and to assume among the powers of the earth #the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them #a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. #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.--That to secure these rights #Governments are instituted among Men #deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed #--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends #it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it #and to institute new Government #laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form #as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence #indeed #will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath sh #that mankind are more disposed to suffer #while evils are sufferable #than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations #pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism #it is their right

[morose-magnetrix]

X-Men (1963) #50

Lorna babe I love you but you gotta work that fit 😭 Because right now, it's working you

#lorna dane #polaris #x-men comics #reading every lorna dane appearance ever #not all costumes are created equal #but this one could slay with the right attitude #x-men #marvel comics #queue

[thekenobee]

Patrick O'Brian would never let an opportunity to make a PUN pass and I love him dearly for it

#WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT #THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL #and WHEN I MEET THOMAS JEFFERSON #IMMA COMPELL TO INCLUDE #WOMEN IN THE SEQUEL #Patrick O'Brian #debs reads #book: the far side of the world #Master and commander #aubreyad #aubrey/maturin #aubrey Maturin