The birth of this Nation began with the ideal that all people were endowed with certain inalienable rights, those being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but since then we have fallen short of this promise more times than I care to admit.
On the recordMarch 23, 2021
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Johnson reflects on the nation's failure to uphold rights for all, especially marginalized groups.
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