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by Buddy Boy on May 27th, 2009

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Abraham Lincoln said, "All men are created equal". Why can people throw this quote around all day, then turn around and VOTE on another person's rights? This is not the nation he imagined, discriminating and hating one another.

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  • by Bob on October 17th, 2009

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    The Magna Carta set these wheels in motion. The "Glorious Revolution" in England in 1688 (?) fueled the colonies. Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" in the declaration and it was later used in the preamble of the constitution. Lincoln again used it at Gettysburg.
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    Brilliant wit that he was, Jefferson was, indeed, controversial, at least as seen by Americans in 2009. Holding slaves and having a sex-slave and slave children is barbaric today but it was common then.
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    The constitution said that "all men are created equal". it explicitly stated that blacks would be taxed at the rate of 3/5ths. women didn't have suffrage until the 19th amendment. even lincoln (see my avatar) said that if it would save the union, he would free none of the slaves, all of the slaves, or half of the slaves.
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    in politics, we never achieve the perfect. it is in the hearts of mankind that perfection is realized.
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    i agree with you about the wrongfulness of any discrimination or any organized hatred. it ought not to exist.
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    the federal government is established as a representative, democratic Republic. that means that old fools in office in washington dc vote for your and my well being. sometimes, i'm grateful for that layer of protection. other times, i see them as fools.
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    i'm all up for a 21st century EQUAL RIGHTS ACT! what do you suggest must be included in it?

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