…that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Understanding that many of you attended public school during the last twenty years and either ignored or glossed over the founding period of the United States of America, the above quote is from the Declaration of Independence, approved and signed on July 4, 1776. In January of 2016, every United States citizen should take a moment to consider whether or not the words written on that parchment over two hundred years ago were a quaint comment on that time in history or whether or not they applied to all men and women regardless of the date…