Why Is the Gettysburg Address Important?


	Why Is the Gettysburg Address Important?

akarra

5-1-2008 5:56 PM

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lincoln, gettysburg, jefferson, politics, democracy, equality, civil war

akarra says:

Addresses two views of how equality should be established as a principle in American life.

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5-2-2008 4:13 AM

righthand

All men are created equal.

"To be an American is to believe all men are created equal, to work to make that a truth as best one can."

So, is the truth a little less true since the Bush years.

I believe that if most men accepted that ALL men are created equal then most of the disharmony on earth would be sorted.

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