Remember why we celebrate the fourth of July. Remember that in the United States we support the Constitution and recognize that we have freedoms. The people have the power – not just a few wealthy people and we do not support the support the current direction of a man who thinks he is a king. All men and women are equal and there are people who will fight for our freedoms. All people means men, women, all races and ethic backgrounds, sexual orientations. All humanity.
The men who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, pledged their “Lives, [their] Fortunes and [their] sacred Honor” to defend the idea of human equality. Ever since then, Americans have sacrificed their own fortunes, honor, and even their lives, for that principle.
Lincoln reminded Civil War Americans of those sacrifices when he urged the people of his era to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”