All Men Are Not Created Equal

It's illogical to think that all men are created equally, simply for the mere fact that they are not. Although man has come a long way, we still have a longer ways to go. We have to learn that even though we are not created equal, without the same opportunities, the same privileges, nor the same standards, we all share the same attributes that make us, well, human. If you deny someone else their rights, no matter how much you despise them, you don't believe in freedom and equality at all. Your lame attempts to strip others of their humanity falls short from what you think is "right". Nobody is telling you to change your opinions about them. Simply give them their rights, give them what all humans deserve.

"To each his own."

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And in the words of Atticus Finch...

"One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious -- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe -- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others -- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal -- there is one human institution which makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, a stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court."

-Atticus Finch,
"To Kill A Mockingbird", by Harper Lee