| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: a mistress, and the jealousy of a wife. She was miserable away from
him, uneasy at his absence, could never see him enough, and loved only
through him and for him. To make men understand the strength of this
feeling, it suffices to add that the son was not only the sole child
of Madame de Dey, but also her last relation, the only being in the
world to whom the fears and hopes and joys of her life could be
naturally attached.
The late Comte de Dey was the last surviving scion of his family, and
she herself was the sole heiress of her own. Human interests and
projects combined, therefore, with the noblest deeds of the soul to
exalt in this mother's heart a sentiment that is always so strong in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: the other, a conservative, as his superior officer, so that one
could not move without the knowledge and consent of the other,
thus forestalling just such an order as this. To obey this order
of the boy Emperor, Yuan must commit two great crimes, murder and
treason, the one on a superior officer, and the other against her
who had appointed him to office and who had been the ruler of the
country for thirty-seven years, either of which would have been
sufficient to have execrated him not only in the eyes of his own
people but of history and of the world. Nay more, had he obeyed
this order, the conservatives would have raised the cry of
rebellion, and an army ten times greater than he could have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that
the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of
the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation
and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the
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.
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