| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who
refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse
to sustain the unjust government which makes the war;
is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards
and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that
degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but
not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment.
Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are
all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from
immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: given my empire for my Tharkian chief."
Then aloud she said: "Do you remember the night when
you offended me? You called me your princess without having
asked my hand of me, and then you boasted that you had
fought for me. You did not know, and I should not have
been offended; I see that now. But there was no one to tell
you what I could not, that upon Barsoom there are two
kinds of women in the cities of the red men. The one they
fight for that they may ask them in marriage; the other kind
they fight for also, but never ask their hands. When a man
has won a woman he may address her as his princess, or in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: And both the Princes had been breathing here,
Which now, two tender bedfellows for dust,
Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms.
What canst thou swear by now?
KING RICHARD. The time to come.
QUEEN ELIZABETH. That thou hast wronged in the time
o'erpast;
For I myself have many tears to wash
Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee.
The children live whose fathers thou hast slaughter'd,
Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age;
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