In a nutshell:
“For all the fact that the [Second Continental Congress] got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement 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. … America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal.
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“In 1863, Lincoln explained, the Civil War was ‘testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.’
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“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.
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“[W]e 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.”
In our families and friendships, leading to the ballot box, in the second half of 2024, our work is cut out for us … There is only *Do. Or do not. There is no try.*
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