Gene Nichol, a UNC law professor, addresses a crowd of community members in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. "We are required to stand: everyone in this community, every member of this state, Republican, Democrat, White, Black, Latino, every member of this rainbow,” Nichol said. “We’re required to stand because somewhere we read ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," he said.