It's language that she says is a lot harder to fight back against than open declarations of bias, and language that teen actors use in the "Dateline" experiment to test the tolerance of other teens.
For these reasons, it's important to celebrate the tremendous progress in global human rights over the past 65 years, including the integration of language from the declaration into many constitutions all over the world.
If we think back to election night, which, granted, seems like a lifetime ago now, Malcolm Turnbull emerged with bellicose declarations of victory but the body language looked like he'd lost.
Historians place the letter in a broader context, "as one of the masterpieces of American patriotism" or even "one of the greatest declarations of defiance in the English language".
Thanks to documents like the Charter of the United Nations (1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such language later became familiar around the world.
One recent symposium of Manila intellectuals called for an end to the two nations' "special relationship," removal of the American bases, declaration of a national language to replace English as the common tongue, monitoring of American researchers and scholars here and a tighter rein on the pervasive influence of the United States.
The audacity of the declaration's language still astonishes.
You do not combat racism by conferences that produce declarations containing hateful language, some of which is a throwback to the days of 'Zionism equals racism,' or supports the idea that we have made too much of the Holocaust, or suggests that apartheid exists in Israel, or that singles out only one country in the world, Israel, for censure and abuse.
But, he said, the Constitution is "a potentially dangerous document" if it is not tethered to the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration's language about our rights coming from our creator.
"Avoid premature declarations of success".
