When our Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence that it was a “self-evident” truth that “all men are created equal,” endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” they enshrined those words as an eternal principle for which the war for liberty would be fought.
A decade later, our Constitution aspired to create a system of self-government which respected both the equality and liberty of all. When the delegates could not agree on the question of slavery, the document fell short of that principle for too many Americans—especially African Americans.
Seventy-six years after the Constitution was written, in the middle of a Civil War to resolve at last its worst failure, Abraham Lincoln stood at Gettysburg and returned to the promise of the Declaration, recasting the struggle to save the Union and cementing the cause of our nation. America he said, was “dedicated to the proposition” of the Declaration, “that all men are created equal.”
One of many heroic groups of African American volunteers fought and gave their lives to prove that they were, indeed, created equal, nine months after Lincoln spoke those words.
A decade later, our Constitution aspired to create a system of self-government which respected both the equality and liberty of all. When the delegates could not agree on the question of slavery, the document fell short of that principle for too many Americans—especially African Americans.
Seventy-six years after the Constitution was written, in the middle of a Civil War to resolve at last its worst failure, Abraham Lincoln stood at Gettysburg and returned to the promise of the Declaration, recasting the struggle to save the Union and cementing the cause of our nation. America he said, was “dedicated to the proposition” of the Declaration, “that all men are created equal.”
One of many heroic groups of African American volunteers fought and gave their lives to prove that they were, indeed, created equal, nine months after Lincoln spoke those words.
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