 When we think about the Declaration and we think about equality, our minds go immediately to the second sentence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. But that's actually the second time the concept of equality comes into the text, and it's only, as I said, one of five moments where the idea of equality appears. So the idea of equality comes up in the first sentence when the colonists say that as a new nation they're going to take their separate and equal station on the world stage, and there that's a concept of