"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."And rights are not ever the kinds of things that should be put to a vote. For that is when residual inequality and feelings of superiority conspire against democracy at its most sacred site... The ballot box.
-- Thomas Jefferson & the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Philadelphia Pennsylvania (July 4, 1776)
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"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice."
-- Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Alabama (1965)
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