| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and
justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose
governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a
situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to
join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: the gunwale. The East looked at them without a sound.
"I have known its fascinations since: I have seen the
mysterious shores, the still water, the lands of brown na-
tions, where a stealthy Nemesis lies in wait, pursues,
overtakes so many of the conquering race, who are proud
of their wisdom, of their knowledge, of their strength.
But for me all the East is contained in that vision of my
youth. It is all in that moment when I opened my young
eyes on it. I came upon it from a tussle with the sea--
and I was young--and I saw it looking at me. And this
is all that is left of it! Only a moment; a moment of
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: fulfilment. The old General did not even allow himself to think
of such things, counting it his patriotic duty as a soldier not
to think of them for fear of getting weak in the carrying out of
these, according to his opinion, very important obligations. Once
a week the old General made the round of the cells, one of the
duties of his position, and asked the prisoners if they had any
requests to make. The prisoners had all sorts of requests. He
listened to them quietly, in impenetrable silence, and never
fulfilled any of their requests, because they were all in
disaccord with the regulations. Just as Nekhludoff drove up to
the old General's house, the high notes of the bells on the
Resurrection |
