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Emily Dickinson

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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"When he hobbled up to get his bit of meat, the mistress said he was too old to have any allowance; that when niggers were too old to work, they ought to be fed on grass. Poor old man! He suffered much before he found rest in the grave" (2225).

Walt Whitman

"Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same" (2445).

Billy Budd

"When it did, the lieutenants assigned to the batteries felt it incumbent on them, in these instances, to stand with draw swords behind the men working the guns" (2059).

"The Raven"

"But it has always appeared to me that a close circumscription of space is absolutely necessary to the effect of insulated incident:-it has the force of a frame to a picture. It has an indisputable moral power in keeping concentrated the attention, and, of coarse, must not be confounded with mere unity of place" (1677).

"Resistance to Civil Government"

"I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. [..] Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it" (1542).

Emerson and the Beauty of Nature

"But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The moonlight, the dewy morning, [...], and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality" (1096).

Websters's Dictionary

"And first of the occasion and inducements thereunto; the which, that I may truly unfold, I must begin at the very root and rise of the same. The which I shall endeavour to manifest in a plain style, with singular regard unto the simple truth in all things; at least as near as my slender judgment can attain the same" (142).

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