pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

I guess the framers forgot. Peaceful people don’t have ideations about killing their neighbors because they have a different complexion.
That’s some SAD failure to read the room.

Sobering and true.

by any means necessary!

Besides… it sounds like “Woke” to me.

includimg the part before that:

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...

and the rest toward the end:

... as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.