Four words.
"All men are created equal."
In 1776, they meant white male landowners.
Not enslaved people.
Not women.
Not Indigenous nations.
Not you.
Every generation since has had to fight to expand who those words include.
That expansion — painful, unfinished, ongoing — is what this story is about.
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