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All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

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?

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All men are created equal.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.