| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: that I was free--no longer a slave--kept me cheerful under this,
and many similar proscriptions, which I was destined to meet in
New Bedford and elsewhere on the free soil of Massachusetts.
For instance, though colored children attended the schools,
and were treated kindly by their teachers, the New Bedford Lyceum
refused, till several years after my residence in that city,
to allow any colored person to attend the lectures delivered in its
hall. Not until such men as Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Mann refused to lecture in their
course while there was such a restriction, was it abandoned.
Becoming satisfied that I could not rely on my trade in New
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: ye pour forth from 'Arafat, remember God by the sacred beacon.
Remember Him how He guided you, although ye were surely before of
those who err.
Then pour ye forth from whence men do pour forth and ask pardon of
God; verily, God is forgiving and merciful.
And when ye have performed your rites, remember God as ye remember
your fathers, or with a keener memory still.
There is among men such as says, 'Our Lord! give us in this
world;' but of the future life no portion shall he have.
And some there be who say, 'Our Lord! give us in this world good and
in the future good; and keep us from the torment of the fire!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: royalists; the movement itself was summed up by them in the catch-word
Reaction--night, in which all cats are grey, and allows them to drawl
out their drowsy commonplaces. Indeed, at first sight, the party of
Order presents the appearance of a tangle of royalist factions, that,
not only intrigue against each other, each aiming to raise its own
Pretender to the throne, and exclude the Pretender of the Opposite
party, but also are all united in a common hatred for and common attacks
against the "Republic." On its side, the Mountain appears, in
counter-distinction to the royalist conspiracy, as the representative of
the "Republic." The party of Order seems constantly engaged in a
"Reaction," which, neither more nor less than in Prussia, is directed
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