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What Exactly Does "All Men Are Created Equal" Mean in the Declaration of Independence?

I used to think the answer was obvious; it was self-evident. But it's not, at least not in today's political context. MAGA Republicans and Democrats have a very different take on the meaning of this ...
Mediaite

NPR Breaks With Traditional July 4th Reading of Declaration of Independence and Instead Examines Meaning of ‘Equality’

Why is this day different from the past Fourths of July in the eyes of NPR producers? Well frequent listeners of NPR’s Morning Edition know that there has been great, and understandable, concern ...
NPR

Examining a line from the Declaration of Independence: All men are created equal

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians discuss the history of the Declaration of Independence, and its founding principle that "all men are created equal." On this Independence Day, we hear some words ...
The New York Times

America Had More Than One Founding and More Than One Set of Founders

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much ...