Biography by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, pp. 751:

The root of equality, Adams said, was the Golden Rule–“Love  your neighbor as yourself.”  Equality was at the heart of Christianity.  When he had written in the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights: “all men are by nature free and equal,” he meant “not a physical but a moral equality.”

Move the military industrial complex out west then. You right coasters have had the joy ride (and 9/11) long enough.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/equality-means-loved-equally-by-the-father-johnadams-2001-at-453