Are all people created equal?

I believe that not all people are created equally, but everyone has the opportunity to become equal. Some people are born into families that do not have as much money as everyone else. Each one of those families here in America have the opportunities to become just as good or even better than everyone else. A lot of people have become successes from a poorer background. People who have a lot of money also have the ability to become successful, and sometimes unsuccessful. It’s a little bit easier for them to be successful since they have the money to go to college and they probably have a better education. These people can also become unsuccessful if they don’t try. Each group of people has the opportunity to fail or do well.
People used to not be equal because of their skin color but ever since the Emancipation Proclamation, every type of person has an equal opportunity in the world. There is still racism in the world today, but more and more people are looking beyond skin color and treating everyone equally.
Here in America, everyone is under the Declaration of Independence. Every person follows the same one giving everybody equal rights. Not one group of people or one person has different rights, giving everybody the same freedoms and laws. All of these rights were created so that every person would have equal opportunity. Under the Declaration of Independence, everyone is equal. People in other countries, however, follow different ways of living. Different groups of people have different freedoms, which makes everybody unequal. People in certain social classes have certain freedoms, which can prevent them from moving from one social class to another. People in higher social classes also stay in the class they were born into, giving them an unfair advantage. We learned about this in DeTocqueville, where people in different social classes in other countries each had their own advantages that allowed each group to become successful, or unsuccessful. The lower groups were not as restless but they didn’t have the opportunities the higher groups did.
Every person has certain talents that make him or her special and sometimes better than other people. Some people can act better, some can do math better, which gives each of them their own advantage. In a way, we’re created equal since each person has their own talent, but some people may disagree on that because some talents are more useful or more wanted than others.