Are all animal born equal?

I have just finished reading George Orwell's book "Animal Farm"...a book with themes on inequality and corruption of power, in an easy to read fable format. Now, I can't necessarily say that Western civilization is exactly parallel with the storyline of this book, but something did stand out to me--the famous line "All animals are created equal, but some are created more equally than others."
This makes me think of Thomas Jefferson. The U.S. founding father proclaimed that "All men are created equal". As we well know, Jefferson's idea of equality didn't extend to all races. Time has helped to create more racial equality, although there is still need for improvement.
In these days, the most prevalent form of discrimination and inequality is economic...money. The world is divided between the haves and the have nots. Economic inequlities in the western world, and even the entire globe is on an increase when it should be decreasing with all the prosperity that surrounds us.
The have nots of New Orleans were left to suffer after Katrina, while the haves were safely spirited away to safer places. The haves of the world are watching the news coverage in the warmth and safety of their homes of the earthquake in Asia, while the have nots are left without shelter. The haves have fat bank rolls and the have nots struggle to pay the rent, even while working 2 jobs--the percentage of US residents who live below the poverty line continues to increase.

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