Everything created by people is imperfect, including America. But because something cannot be perfected does not mean we should not cherish it and strive together to make it better. #independenceday2020 @TPPF 1/5
The miracle of #IndependenceDay is that a group of people, many of them slaveholders, were able to agree upon this universal statement: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... 2/5
...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These words, from the #DeclarationOfIndependence allowed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to powerfully claim: 3/5
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of... the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note... ...that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 4/5
Our project is for all of us to continue to strive for the improvement of what we started 244 years ago. Let no voice be silenced by fear or intimidation and let us all proceed on the basis of mutual respect and facts, not myth and hate. 5/5
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