‘All men are created equal’ is not hypocrisy but vision

By Jeff Jacoby | Sunday, July 4, 2010 | The Boston Globe

“…The urgent choice in 1776 was not between slavery or abolition. It was between hanging together, as Benjamin Franklin supposedly quipped in Philadelphia, or most assuredly hanging separately. They chose to hang together, and the confrontation over slavery was left for later….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/07/04/all_men_are_created_equal_is_not_hypocrisy_but_vision?mode=PF

 

 

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