Americans value freedom and equality. What happens when these values come into conflict? (For example: When free people are against equality or when equal people want to limit freedoms.)

Well first of all I should probably tell you what freedom means to me before we go into talking about what would happen if someone decided to take it away from me. Freedom to me is being able to wash your car in your own drive way wearing anything you would like to wear. There are no rules that say girls can’t wear short shorts and a swim suit top, or having someone say that she is showing too much skin for someone her age. There’s no rule that says by a girls twenty-first birthday does she have to be wed with two children. No, we live in a free state that clearly says in the bill of rights we have the freedom of: Freedom of speech, press, religion, and petition.
If I had grown up in a country were these freedoms aren’t allowed I’m not sure it would bother me too much, yes I’m sure I wouldn’t like them. But I don’t agree with things now! No one is going to agree with everything, or go along with the way our unique government thinks it should run. There will always be that one person who is willing to make waves. The problem arises when an emperor comes in, starts taking charge of everything. Making new rules, religions, and appoints himself head of state! Every normal person with a brain is going to know that isn’t right, and if he has any say in what his life should be like, they will use their voice, I mean after all you might as well use it…Thus I give you the birth of a revolution!
Since the dawn of written word people have been having revolutions over one thing or another, most of it over land and freedom! The ordinary man doesn’t like to be told what to do especially by an outsider. For example: Rome and Egypt. Caesar thought he could come in take control of everything and claim it was for God and country. But in the end we all knew what happened to the mighty Caesar, “Et tu Brutus?” He was betrayed by his “so called” best mate! It just goes to show that no matter what, the human man or woman will not give up freedom for anything in the entire world.
The last part would be equality. The normal person wants to be considered the same as everyone else no matter what color, where you grew up, what side of the tracks they grew up on, or how much money they make in a financial year. They want to be the same as the Joe Blow right next door! My opinion in that is if they can talk, walk, and are breathing, they can do whatever that man down the block can. A person is only held back by themselves, and I truly believe that you are your own worst enemy. Just like Martin Luther King Jr, he was a black man who had a dream that one day our kids would walk down the street and see nothing but people. They would look past what was on the outside and see only what was just like them on the inside! Yet that was how many years ago, and we are still fighting to see that dream come true… So as a closing to thins topic which I’m sure I could go on and on about equality. I leave you with this quote for a very wise man of color proving that not only white men know what they are talking about. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”