All Men Are Created Equal Tapestries

Penned by Thomas Jefferson, edited by Benjamin Franklin, this key sentence from the Declaration of Independence is often quoted and is arguably some of the most important well known words in US and world history. Jefferson was influenced by French philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment, such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu. In their writings, those philosophers advocated that men were born free and equal. This later led to the French Revolution of 1789 and the concept of Human Rights (Droits de l'Homme in French).

Original illustration design and lettering. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Declaration of Independence