Liberty, equality, fraternity were supposed to be gifts. I took those words for granted through most of my adult life, assuming that the country would always have the first, would continue to strive for the second and would never completely abandon the third. And here we are, with all three of these extraordinary, moving promises made by the country’s founders to their people in jeopardy at this juncture in the nation’s history. How daring their dreams seem now – and how much trust they placed in the generations ahead, the leaders who held power over their country’s fate, and were free to
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