Amendment 14 Dbq

Do you ever wonder what it was like to not be equal to someone? How about putting yourself in their shoes, where people are discriminated against for being who they are. Many people are debating on why people should and shouldn’t have equal rights as most regular Americans. Why colored people are being discriminated against and why they don’t have equal rights as most people do. In the Bill of Rights amendment fourteen and thirteen give the biggest evidence for all people to have equality. Amendment fourteen was the first step for equality of the people.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside...; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws(Amend. 14 Sec 1).” This quote shows, If someone of a different color was born in the United States they wouldn’t get equal rights because they have a different colored skin. Amendment 14 says that if you are born in …show more content…
“By this rule you are to be a slave to the first man you meet with a fairer skin than your own(Fragment on Slavery)”. This a reason that there is no such thing as equality for all. There will be a person who would do this because he will want to enslave this person because he is a different color than him. Let's say that you went to a store but you meet a person with lighter skin than your own so that means he could enslave you and your slaves. This paragraph explains that all people can not have equality because in the book “Fragment on Slavery” Frederick Douglass says, that if you meet someone with a lighter skin than you they can enslave you or if he is smarter than you this is not equality there will always be a person who will agree or