When in the course of human events...

[angrychair]

I like this part...

Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form

[yellow dahlia]

1. THIS! THIS! THIS!

[Eko]

2. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,

pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

[BurnDoubt]

9. We are sadly, sadly out-gunned. Literally.

I guess the framers forgot. Peaceful people don’t have ideations about killing their neighbors because they have a different complexion.
That’s some SAD failure to read the room.

[ananda]

3. Rec

Sobering and true.

[RockCreek]

4. KnR

[spanone]

5. K&R

[Deuxcents]

6. This is the opening to our Declaration of Independence! I think some of us have forgotten

[Jack Valentino]

7. ABOLISH TRUMP------- !!!!!

by any means necessary!

[BurnDoubt]

8. This is only useful for people who can read.

Besides… it sounds like “Woke” to me.

[democrank]

10. K & R

[B.See]

11. It's always been a go-to for me, only

includimg the part before that:

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...

and the rest toward the end:

... as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.