Think back to the year 1776 when Thomas Jefferson and his other four committee members sat down to write The Declaration of Independence. ... Thomas Jefferson stated in this paragraph what our perfect society should be. ... Racism is not as bad as it used to be back in the sixties and early seventies, but it definitely has not gone away either. ... The next part of Thomas Jefferson's paragraph I want to talk about is "Liberty." ... There are still so many things society needs to work on until we become that "perfect" society Thomas Jefferson wrote about. ...

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The old American Dream was about the desire of a land, where life should be better, fuller and richer for every man. The old American Dream was in the minds of the early settlers, who fled from Europe to America. ... But it was very difficult for them to start a new life. ... The American dream was also laid down in the Deceleration of Thomas Jefferson, where it is expressed, that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are self-evident rights of the individual. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that are endowed by their creator with certain una...

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