Carson’s Created Equal brilliantly reveals the destructiveness of false divisions in society through his moving conversation on education, faith, race, and values in America.

All diptychs in the book compare two people, who have some kind of a connection that ends up being the biggest contrast between them: for example, out-laws are put next to policemen, school drop-outs next to college graduates, and Amish teens are paired with punk teenagers. Zinn says that the use of the word men, to the exclusion of women, indicated the women were "beyond consideration as worthy of inclusion" and "they were simply overlooked in any consideration of political rights, any notions of civic equality". It very cogently explains how their supposed efforts to help actually harm the people they are pretending to support and protect.He has degrees in economics, philosophy and history from Cambridge and the LSE, and was awarded a Henry Fellowship at Harvard where he studied under Amartya Sen. He believes racists are created from the environment, not from our DNA, and our early education will have a lasting influence on our behavior and beliefs. Their story challenges others to grasp the truth that God breathed life into the human race— created equal—in His likeness, for the purpose of glorifying Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who desires all people to come to salvation in Him through obedience, demonstrating love toward all. Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book’s title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. He continued: "The comity of peoples in groups large or small rests not upon this chimerical notion of equality but upon fraternity, a concept which long antedates it in history because it goes immeasurably deeper in human sentiment.

By photographing recognizable characters in society, it is highly surprising to find that the relationships between these seemingly opposite figures are oftentimes closely related. Companion to blockbuster documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, but a fascinating stand alone read, as well! Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Franklin suggested minor changes, one of which stands out far more than the others: "We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable.Although I am Christian and appreciated it, this may be a turnoff to someone that does not practice the religion, and may cause them to throw out Carson’s arguments by labeling him a Bible thumper.