King says, "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'... King says, "this note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be granted the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness- a...

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Jefferson was a believer that slavery could be abolished if Congress had sufficient power of the states to declare all men free. ... According to the Portable Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson expressed in the "Notes on the State of Virginia" his observations of blacks or African-Americans as being "inferior to the whites in both the body and mind" (pg. 192-193), and that "nature has been less bountiful to them in the endowments of the head" (pg. 191). ... Jefferson felt that the blacks were incapable of colonizing on their own without first being educated and then heavily assisted after being free...

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They were able to free themselves from their chains and take hold of the ship that was supposed to bring them to the New World. ... It is important to note that the time that Cinque and his men arrived in America was years after the American Revolution, which was fought by the Americans against the British. The main goal of this revolution was to gain freedom, to have a free state. ... People like the 8th president of the United states, Martin Van Bueren, it was to his convenience that he would allow slavery to be tolerated, for even U.S Secretary of State John Forsyth was threatening him...

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What is free will? ... A great man by the name of "Martin Luther King" once said, "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ...

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XVIII Of the Rights of soveraignes by institution - The rights of a sovereign are as follows: - 1) Subjects owe him sole loyalty; - 2) Subjects cannot be freed from their obligation to him; - 3) Dissenters must yield to the majority in declaring a sovereign; - 4) The sovereign cannot be unjust or injure any innocent subject; - 5) The sovereign cannot be put to death; - 6) The sovereign may determine what ideas are acceptable (he is the ultimate judge of philosophical/scientific1st principles) and may censor doctrines that are revolting to peace (ideas that may cause discord within...

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The bill for general education-- allowing everyone, without regard to birth or wealth, to have as much free education as each person was fitted for. ... The Notes on the Establishment of the Money Unit, which led to the adoption of our present decimal system of copper, pennies, silver dimes ,and dollars In 1800 Jefferson became the third President of the United States. ...

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