I mean, it's actually this, like, just amazing document if you look at it. I mean, it's part of why folks like MLK always referenced back to it is that The founding of the country set us up for all. All of the things that people could fight for. Moving from there. Right. Instead, like abolishing slavery, having universal suffrage, all these different things. If you read what's in the Declaration of Independence, that's basically like what they set us up to be able to fight to do. (00:20–00:28)
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