They said the new state governments of the South would not treat blacks as free and equal citizens.

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We are free and equal in the state of nature he makes the point that there is a difference between a state of liberty and a state of license.

每个人在自然状态下都是自由而平等的,他同时指出，自由状态,和放纵状态是有区别的。

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Or will the best regime be a large cosmopolitan ? order embracing all human beings " perhaps even a kind of universal League of Nations consisting of all free and equal men and women?

或者，最优的政体将会是一个,大型的国际秩序吗,拥抱全人类，或许是一种普遍性的“国联,结合了所有自由，平等的男女？

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Human beings are free and equal beings.

每个人都是自由而平等的。

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All men are born free and equal?"

人人都是生而自由和平等的吗"

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Is it not palpably nearer the truth to say that no man was ever born free and that no two men were ever born equal?

是否应该说,没有人生来就是自由的,也不可能人人生下来都是平等的

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