The Declaration of Independence defined the promise of America - freedom and equality for all Americans. ... The end of the Civil War, which brought about these Amendments, was the legal end to slavery in the United States, but it would be a long and difficult battle before those rights became a social custom in America. ... Without the audacious and unyielding efforts made by activists for African American civil rights, the pledge that the Declaration of Independence makes, " all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", might still b...

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During a time of revolution and independence, the leading men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, all helped to influence a young country which stressed freedom and liberty for all. ... Washington, Jefferson, Mason, and Madison all were alive during a difficult time, when cultures were changing, and they were socialized to believe in certain things; all of which made them who they were and explains a little about America's past. ... The opposite of that culture is individualism which supports self-expression and independence (Arnett 102). ... Documen...

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It was not until thorough research in the official documents of the Union and Confederate Armies that Dew concluded that if slavery was in fact, the major cause for the secession of the South and the civil war; these primary sources are the key into finding the truth in finding evidence about the civil war that had it not been an issue about slavery, there would not have been a civil war at all. The secession commissioners repeated the same message throughout any argument: Lincoln and the Republicans were abolitionists that determined to establish racial equality; secession and independence ...

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His aim was to empower black people by uniting them under the roof of Black Nationalism, which fostered independence and self-determination instead of a mere acceptance by and an integration into the dominant society. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ... In his famous poem "Black Art,"" he writes about the need of "poems that kill"" and "wrestle cops into alleys and take their weapons leaving them dead". ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". ... The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those sentenced to death. ...

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King vowed that until the Negro members of society were granted the same rights as the white man he would continue to violate those laws which were morally unjust in an attempt to bring about justice stating that "It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. ...

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