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lil-miss-ness · 7 years ago

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Once upon a time I was a little girl with a dream. A dream to be someone important in this world, someone who mattered. I dreamed that maybe I’d make a mark on the world, or even change it in some small way. I think we all dream these things. As I grow older, my dream changes. My wishes and hopes for the future no longer include only myself, but all people. The world is a big place, despite how small it feels at times. Billions of people inhabit it, living their tiny little lives, eventually dying, leaving nothing but memories. Currently in the world there are thousands of people we remember, that we idolize. As Americans, I suppose one of those people, generally, is our president- our leader, but as I write these words what I feel towards my President is shame. Here, in the land of the free-the home of the brave, we have so many luxuries, so many opportunities that we all take for granted; I know I do. People come here, to OUR country, to be free. They come here to remove shackles, to have freedom to live how they choose. It has been that way for centuries. At the beginning, our founding fathers declared 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”. The men who wrote this declaration were god fearing men. They came from another world, with ONE strongest hope among many; that ALL MEN should have a right to freedom, that ALL MEN should have the right pursue their OWN life, that ALL MEN are responsible for the course of their country, for the protection of their homes and their rights. Then they proceeded to enslave and suppress women, people of color, and people whose convictions and religions and skin tones defied what THEY believed, what they had dictated to be just and right. After they fought wars and killed people from the country they had been born into, to break themselves free of bars set around them by a government misunderstanding and single-minded. I know I don’t have to tell you these things, because we already know them. We’ve read time after time about these men, the men who built our country brick by brick. They (along with thousands and hundreds of black/white/brown men and women who fought for freedom) created a place, a safe haven, for refugees and immigrants who desperately desired a new way of life- a better way. You see, ALL OF US stem from that. America was great, it still is, but not BECAUSE of the enslaving and slaughtering of people, the stealing of lands, or the fact that women had no voice. America was great IN SPITE of those things. Greatness thrived here because people had the right to speak out, because they had the right to the pursuit of “life, liberty, and happiness”. Our current President speaks of “making America great again” but what HE doesn’t seem to grasp is that we are a country built on the concept of PROGRESS. WE are a people of UNITY, of CHANGE, of ACCEPTANCE. A country where not only people labeled immigrant, refugee, and slave are welcome, but also welcome to rise up, to stand for what they believe, and to fight for their “unalienable rights” that they are “endowed by their CREATOR”. On THIS is what our country was built. These words are our hope for a better tomorrow. We are not trying to make America great AGAIN, because that isn’t what America is about. America is a country built at a time when people needed a new world, a world BETTER than monarchies and dictators. A world MADE FOR CHANGE, made for progress, made for a new hope that power lies WITHIN the people, no matter their race, gender, or religion. To EVERY American or person reading this now, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, AND WE MATTER.

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

-The Declaration of Independence, The Want, Will, and Hope of the People 1776

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