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Outspoken: Why the Declaration contains the 'most important' sentence in history
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- Jun 7, 2026
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- 1067
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Summary
Despite its contradictions, Historian and author Joseph Ellis calls the Declaration's phrase "all men are created equal" the most important sentence in American history. In this Outspoken conversation, Ellis argues that the American Revolution really was a revolution, a “total reversal of the tectonic plates of Western political thought,” in which power flowed upward from the people instead of downward from God to kings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices