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Why is the reference and rebuttal to Thomas Jefferson’s saying. “all men are created equal,” significant to Tom Robinson’s case?

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Why is the reference and rebuttal to Thomas Jefferson’s saying. “all men are created equal,” significant to Tom Robinson’s case? (Is it because when Atticus refers to how men aren’t really created equal and how if we were we wouldn’t be segregating the blacks from whites and how they could see the truth behind the case and how Tom Robinson is truly innocent and not just a colored man)