Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (..). There is a tendency (..) 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. . Harper Lee
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In this quote, Thomas Jefferson was talking about the American view on equality and how we don't truly believe it. Our society is not equal and we all know that. We have a system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The rich people have more money than they could ever spend and the poor people have more debt than they could ever pay back.

The rich people can always afford to travel, go on vacation, buy a fancy car, and buy fancy things that the poor people cannot afford. When the rich people go on trips they aren't worried about whether their kids will be able to pay for college because they're already making enough money to pay for it.

Source: To Kill A Mockingbird

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