"When the decision was finally made to accept blacks as full citizens, the founders' principles provided the theoretic…"

"My own nation’s story began with simple words: All men are created equal, and endowed by our Creator with certain una…"

"The virtually official reply to the Declaration was written by the barrister John Lind, who largely devoted himself t…"

"The growing openness to members of all the world's races was always possible under the terms of the Declaration of In…"

"At the time of America's Declaration of Independence, when preparing to separate from England, a remarkable incident …"

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually ple…"

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the …"

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have co…"

"Flights of oratory... especially that concerning Negro slavery, which, though I knew his Southern brethren would neve…"

"We must, therefore,…hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."