1/ When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 41 of the 56 signers were slaveowners. The principles of the Declaration were not descriptions of what we yet embodied, but a statement of the ideals every generation should further. youtube.com/0LyzI81HDdw via @YouTube

Marianne Williamson - July 4th, 2020

Let's have a mindful rather than a mindless holiday this year...

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2/ Every generation lives out the American struggle: On one hand we’re based on the most aspirational and enlightened principles ever to inform the founding of a nation & on the other hand we’ve been at times the most violent perpetrators of transgression against those principles
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3/ Few generations have had so much to think about on July 4. Who will we, in our time, decide to be?
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Replying to @marwilliamson @YouTube
Marianne Williamson gives us much to reflect upon this 4th of July...
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Thank you Marianne! 💖
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Their vision did not include women, natives or imported slaves. It was not a broad and expansive vision; it was restricted to the patricians who founded the nation and the gentry, and NOT the people who were supposed to "do as they are told."
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Yes, every generation should read it and begin to understand how to use its principles to better the lives of the people and our nation as a whole. Read for youself its free👇👇👇 khanacademy.org/humanities/u…
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You should leave this land that fought and bled to make men free... China is more fitting for you.
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