Filko: These truths are self-evident – Daily Press

“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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” — Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

In just that one sentence, the writers of the Declaration of Independence established what has come to be known as “The American Creed.” It was in adherence to that one singular idea that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called upon us during the American Civil Rights Movement. He didn’t suggest a new creed; he simply called upon us to live up to the original one, the one that we had long established but did not fully