Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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