当你说谎，你偷走别人知道真相的权利；当你诈骗，你偷走公平的权利。

——卡勒德·胡赛尼

When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.  

——Khaled Hosseini

我们认为下列真理不言而喻 : 人人生而平等，造物者赋予其若干不可剥夺的权利，包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利；

世间政府是为保障这些权利而建的，政府的正当权力来自于被治理者的认可；当任何政府形式危及这些目标时，人民就有权予以改变或废除并基于最有可能给他们带来安全与幸福的原则和权力分配形式建立新政府。

的确，从慎重考虑，不应当由于轻微和短暂的原因而改变成立多年的政府。过去的一切经验也都说明，任何苦难，只要尚能忍受，人类都宁愿容忍，而无意废除他们久已习惯了的政府来恢复自身的权益。

但是，当政府一贯滥用职权、强取豪夺，一成不变地追逐这一目标，足以证明它旨在把人民置于绝对专制统治之下时，那么，人民就有权利，也有义务推翻这个政府，并为他们未来的安全建立新的保障。

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.