| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: need knowledge of their own military strength to back their
genial lawlessness.
That regular army, which is a dear little army, should be kept to
itself, blooded on detachment duty, turned into the paths of
science, and now and again assembled at feasts of Free Masons,
and so forth.
It is too tiny to be a political power. The immortal wreck of
the Grand Army of the Republic is a political power of the
largest and most unblushing description. It ought not to help to
lay the foundations of an amateur military power that is blind
and irresponsible.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: mouth; "it may be we shall meet again. Thou hast already the
SCHAHMAJM, as thine own Rabbis call it--the general creation;
watch, therefore, and pray, for thou must attain the knowledge of
Alchahest Elixir Samech ere I may commune further with thee."
Then returning with a slight nod the reverential congees of the
Jew, he walked gravely up the lane, followed by his master, whose
first observation on the scene he had just witnessed was, that
Wayland ought to have paid the man for his drug, whatever it was.
"I pay him?" said the artist. "May the foul fiend pay me if I
do! Had it not been that I thought it might displease your
worship, I would have had an ounce or two of gold out of him, in
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not
pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and
equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will
now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns
to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility
in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The
whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of
our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on
the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the
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