Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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