| Everybody is Equal | |
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That we're all created equal
Is what we'er always told
Don't tell that to the child
whose always hungry and cold
Or those with physical or
mental defects to deal with
They of course know to well
That equality is truely a myth
And the girl who sits home
The night of her junior prom
Her tears muffled by music
Tenderly soothed by mom
The man working in the factory
He is now being laid off
20 years now worth a pink slip
Now things will be very rough.
The single mom struggling
To feed and clothe her children
Working too many hours
She could really use a friend.
Everybody is not created equal
It might have been a goal
Some of us are fractions
Just a small part of the whole
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Posted: 09/24/2007 2:45 PM |
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What the thinkers behind the Declaration of Independence understood is what equality means--and what it doesn't mean. John Adams, a premiere conservative thinker and signer of the Declaration of Independence, understood the meaning of equality. In a letter from John Adams to John Taylor, he wrote the following:
That all men are born to equal rights is clear. Every being has a right to his own, as clear, as moral, as sacred, as any other being has. This is as indubitable as a moral government in the universe. But to teach that all men are born with equal powers and faculties, to equal influence in society, to equal property and advantages through life, is as gross a fraud, as glaring an imposition on the credulity of the people, as ever was practiced by monks, by Druids, by Brahmins, by priests of the immortal Lama, or by the self-styled philosophers of the French revolution. For honor's sake ... for truth and virtue's sake, let American philosophers and politicians despise it.
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Posted: 09/24/2007 2:59 PM |
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Everybody is Equal
We do hear that a lot don't we? From childhood on. I guess so that we would treat each other equally? Whatever that means since apparently we aren't. If I were a child I certainly would sooner obey an adult than a child. In the work place don't tell me my co worker is equal in power to my boss.
Still ... we were created equal in rights?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
That's how it was written for immortal consecration on that sweltering Philadelphia day in July of 1776. We've heard that line so many times since we were children. It's been drilled into our heads. The obvious omission of course, is that women were left out. And in actual practice, blacks, Native Americans, and other ethnic minorities were also excluded. In fact, the only ones included by the Founding Fathers were propertied white males. And the more property the better.
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Posted: 10/13/2007 7:31 AM |
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