| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro
is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds
himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to
dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words
of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they
were signing a promissory note to which every American was to
fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be
guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: hard labour, and women flogged. They are
many.
Tens of thousands of the best people. Some
shut up in prisons, others ruined by false educa-
tion, by the vain desire to bring them up as we
wish. But not succeeding in this, whatever might
have been is ruined as well, for it is made impos-
sible. It is as if we were trying to make buck-
wheat out of corn sprouts by splitting the ears.
One may spoil the corn, but one could never
change it to buckwheat. Thus all the youth of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: should have had to do all the digging myself. The curate
would certainly have failed me.
It was on the third day, if my memory serves me right,
that I saw the lad killed. It was the only occasion on which
I actually saw the Martians feed. After that experience I
avoided the hole in the wall for the better part of a day.
I went into the scullery, removed the door, and spent some
hours digging with my hatchet as silently as possible; but
when I had made a hole about a couple of feet deep the
loose earth collapsed noisily, and I did not dare continue. I
lost heart, and lay down on the scullery floor for a long time,
War of the Worlds |
