NolaMusicLover highlighted: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE MATTERS BECAUSE IT HELPS us see that we cannot have freedom without equality. It is out of an egalitarian commitment that a people grows—a people that is capable of protecting us all collectively, and each of us individually, from domination. If the Declaration can stake a claim to freedom, it is only because it is so clear-eyed about the fact that the people’s strength resides in its equality
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 01:56:22 +0000