From Boston Public Radio-
The
breakfast's keynote speaker, Bishop Michael Curry of the Episcopal
Church, invoked King via Thomas Jefferson. He acknowledged the hypocrisy
of Jefferson — a slaveowner who fathered children with one of his
slaves, who also wrote the Declaration of Independence.
"He
may have been wrong, but the words were right,” Curry said. “’We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
“Human equality, human dignity, is not conferred by Congress,” Curry added, “it is decreed by the Lord God Almighty.”
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