Freedom and Equality Freedom and equality are both very important to the life that we now live in America. Freedom gives every free man and woman the right to believe the way that they want to believe, as well as they consider to be a way of life. Freedom is why our nation, America, was created. Equality makes every man and woman equivalent, and gives both the same opportunities in life. Freedom is a basic right to all Americans, old or young, Black or White, Catholic or Muslim, male or female. For many years we have fought for this right. Starting back in the American Revolutionary War days, until now, where we are still active in Iraq and Iran, we have and we will always be fighting for this basic right that we have. Equality has been something that Americans, especially minorities, have been striving towards. Since the beginning of this country, the white classes of land owners have always had every right that our government has had. Eventually the White classes of every man in America have obtained the same rights of the land owners. The minorities and females of every race has had a more difficult time of attaining the rights and freedoms of the White men of America. The Founding Fathers of America wrote the constitution, and in the preamble of that document, are the words “We The People”. This starting sentence of our most important document shows that our America and its people, of any race and sex, should be as equals and sharing the same freedoms as each other. Even though our very first document of our great nation says those three words, not every man or woman were equal. Even the first few presidents had slaves, and this proves that they did not believe that every man or woman are both as equal in society, as the White man. One of the first men that was an American citizen to contemplate a black man or any other race of