It’s an equality of sorts, I suppose, that we all witness, for example, the First, Second, Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments come under assault from within, that the entire U.S. Constitution is denounced as “evil” by self-appointed intelligentsia, and that even Article One, Section One isn’t safe.

We honor today a man whose vision for American liberty was that it would indeed apply to all; a radical for the American conception of God-given rights that are most decidedly not evil when respected by government, but evil when usurped:

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The words, the promises, are not evil; they are magnificent. They are our inheritance. These rights are unalienable; that is the guarantee we have inherited, and evil it is to try to revoke it.