Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.