[Zeneta]

I do believe they are self-evident. Simply because I, you and all humans are provided with the ability of rational thought or the ability to reason. I don't care what your circumstance is, everybody has this innate ability. Does anyone think that slaves and their children accepted the bondage they knew as a truth? The way things are? Some, certainly may have.

The issue I see, is that many are simply not asking the right questions. When they start asking the right questions, they become liberated within their mind at first, and then in their actions and life pursuits.

It is no ones business to know or control what I am thinking.

I am FREE.

This IS self-evident and we are all born with it.

[Yardstick]

I do believe they are self-evident.

That's nice. But other people don't, which is the problem. And having a capacity for rational thought isn't enough. Nor is waiting around for people to ask the right questions and hoping they arrive at the right answers. You have to make the case for the truth, to argue for it, to expound on it and praise it, to persuade people so they can see it. This is not a passive thing. And by the way, doing so doesn't amount to "controlling what you're thinking". There is a difference between controlling and persuading.