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Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.

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Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889, ch. 13.

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Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, edited by Henry B. Wonham. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ch. 13.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to James Madison. 15 Mar. 1789.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "James Madison, March 15, 1789." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 43.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 43.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 2, ch. 2.

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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Jimi Hendrix

If 6 Was 9

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Hendrix, Jimi. "If 6 Was 9." Performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Axis: Bold as Love. Track Records, 1967.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 20. Originally from Notebook, c. 1889.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." 27 Jan. 1838, Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Never Scared. HBO, 17 Apr. 2004.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, notice.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, notice.

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 8.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 8.

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Twain, Mark, [published anonymously]. What is Man? De Vinne Press, 1906.

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Twain, Mark. "What is Man?" What Is Man? and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 2019.

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Washington, George. "Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments." 29 July 1757.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience." Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Adams, John. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1797, House Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.