Well...
We are not equal in intellect. Are you equipped to give a lecture on Quantum Physics at Cambridge? I certainly am not.
We are not equal in physical ability. Much as I would like to earn Beckham's salary or be chosen for the next Olympic Games I fear the fact that I am half dead after running twenty yards will tell against me.
So much for what God or Nature has given us. As for wealth, the rich and poor are as far apart as ever and getting further apart.
Of course, in England we were all supposed to be 'equal before the law'. Do you seriously believe that has ever been true?
So when you breezily inform a man who is out of work through chronic illness and cannot afford to pay for the treatment he needs, that he is 'equal to everybody else', but no you can't give him a job, what exactly do you mean?
The truth is, isn't it, that your words are as empty as those of the racist filth (is that the right expression?) who drew up the Declaration of Independence?
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