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In today’s newspaper, July 4th, the Declaration of Independence from 1976 was printed. One line always strikes me: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

If we now understand ‘Men’ to be men and women of all ages, races and nationalities, simply human beings, this statement, in my opinion, shows how far from this idea we have gone in the United States. Does a child born into a home with no stove, refrigerator and beds in a section of the city that is racially segregated and improvised really have the same right to the “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” than a child born to a well-to-do family in the suburbs? Does a young military trainee at Marquette University who is trained to kill without conscience on instinct and thrown into the ‘endless wars’ of our times really have the full right of life as a young man or woman that does not have to go the route of military training for an education? Does a family improvised, struggling for food and survival, have the same right to the “Pursuit of Happiness” as a family living in a safe environment whose only concern for food is not eating too much? Does a child born in Honduras after the US military coup that brought down the democratic government and installed a repressive one have the same right to life, liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness as a child born in the USA?

Our ancestors who wrote the Declaration of Independence lived in tough times with no representation in government. Now we live in a time when corporations are considering persons and money wins elections and gives some more rights.

Yet today, with less basic human rights, when all ‘men’, human beings, are not considered equal, where the color of one’s skin and the amount of money they possess makes a difference of how they live, we do not consider a ‘revolution’, violent or non-violent. Rather we thank our military for making us safe by violence and war and we close our eyes, ears and hearts to suffering and despair around us. Are we really more ‘free’ or more ‘asleep’ than our ancestors?

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