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To: Enigma who wrote (5419)	2/14/2000 6:09:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 13015

I think it is important when we quote to consider the source. An idea is not responsible for the person who expresses it. To know that the author was a person of his own times and people is sometimes important. While it is important that we learn and understand more about Jefferson, especially that he had a mulatto concubine and treated his children not as well as we might have preferred, I think that many of his words outshine some of his acts. "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." nara.gov google.com