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created free and equal, everybody believes it, agrees
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with it.
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MR, SYKES: I beg your pardon on that specific
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MR. GENTRY: It's in writing
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MR. SYKES: Now, the Declaration of Independenc
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said all men are created equal and then Thomas Jefferson
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went ahead and established a school system in which
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different people got different types of schooling because
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he knew they weren't created free and equal. I think
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what the thrust of that language in the Declaration of
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Independence is that all men should have equal oppor-
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tunities and a freedom to exercise those opportunities,
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but it is significant to me —
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THE CHAIRMAN: You wouldn't put that in the
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Bill of Rights, the phrase you just mentioned?
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MR. SYKES: What?
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MR. GENTRY: For instance, on education,
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equal education opportunities for all children in the
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State; would you include that?
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MR. SYKES: Let me go on and point out what I
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