All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. This really feels similar to some of the ideas of Locke in the Enlightenment that we talk about in other videos. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status. So this is interesting because even though I start this video with the United States Declaration of Independence and a discussion of the Constitution, slavery in the United States would last for another 80 plus years after the Declaration of Independence was written. Women didn't even have the right to vote until the early 20th century. So beyond this being a universal declaration for the entire planet, the attempt is also to make it clear that it needs to apply to everyone.