"As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are equal.  We now practically read it, '...all men are created equal except the negroes.'  Soon, it will read, '...all men are created equal except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.'  When it comes to this I should prefer immigration to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty, to Russia for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

~Abe Lincoln

I wonder what Abe would say, if he'd known that almost 150 years after the north won the war, that all STILL wouldn't mean all, and that human rights are today still withheld from many Americans to be viewed as privileges rather than as rights?

I'm pretty sure he would be beside himself with shame that we are still a nation of hypocrites, pretending to love liberty and equality.

WE ALL have a human right to self-determination and pursuing happiness.  

NO ONE has a right to deny anyone else their civil rights because of how they live their life.

To do this is AGAINST the United States Constitution.

ALL, means ALL.