Stephens of the Confederate States contended in 1861 that “the great truth” is “the negro is not equal to the white man that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.” Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and vehement defender of slavery, found “not a word of truth” in them as he attacked the phrase during a speech in 1848.
Anderson, president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, said that to him the phrase “all men are created equal" means all people possess “the same dignity, we all count equally, no one is disposable, no one a second-class citizen.” Even so, he said, not everyone has an equal right to marry - what he and other conservatives regard as the legal union of a man and woman. flag and the rainbow flag, an international symbol of LGBTQ liberation and pride, are shown flying at the Stonewall National Monument in New York. Political rights were determined by the majority and could be limited by them.” “That’s why slavery is wrong and why people have an equal right to the fruits of their labor.
“Lincoln spoke of equality in natural rights - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” says Foner, whose books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. One could enjoy equality in one but not another.” In Lincoln’s time, according to historian Eric Foner, “they made a careful distinction between natural, civil, political and social rights. By Abraham Lincoln, who invoked them in the Gettysburg Address and elsewhere, but with a narrower scope than what King imagined a century later. Martin Luther King Jr., who in his “I Have a Dream” speech held up the phrase as a sacred promise to Black Americans. By feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 who stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.” By civil rights leaders from Frederick Douglass to the Rev. The words have since been endlessly adapted and reinterpreted. Spahn, like such leading Revolutionary War scholars as Jack Rakove, believes that “all men are created equal” originally referred less to individual equality than to the rights of a people as a whole to self-government. Kennedy Institute in Berlin and author of the upcoming Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition, says that a draft version of the Declaration made clear that Jefferson meant “all humans” were created equal but not necessarily that that all humans were equal under the law. He added that “did not mean he did not recognize his enslaved people to be people, just that they could only enjoy those universal, natural rights elsewhere, in a country of their own: emancipation and expatriation.” For the slave-owning Jefferson “and most of his fellow patriots, enslaved people were property and therefore not included in these new polities, leaving their status unchanged,” Onuf said. The Declaration was an indictment of the British monarchy, but not a statement of justice for all. Feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.” (Uncredited / ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Anthony quote, "No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex," in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington in June 1920. Chairwoman Alice Paul (second from left) and officers of the National Woman's Party hold a banner with a Susan B.
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