“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
These words, and the rest of the Declaration of Independence, still resonate today, 246 years after America’s Founding Fathers penned them, spelling out simple concepts that are too often hidden in the hearts of oppressed individuals around the world—that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The government may rule a land only through the consent of the governed, the declaration says, and in 1776, the people of this land no longer consented to British rule and declared independence….