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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to British Parliament. Parliament meeting. 8 June 1982, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 31 Mar. 1776.

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Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Chief Joseph. "I Will No Longer Fight Forever More." 5 Oct. 1877, Blaine County, Montana Territory, USA.

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Alexie, Sherman. "Sherman Alexie: The Value of Subverting Authority." Guernica, 5 Oct. 2012.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 31.

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Whistler, James McNeill. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. London: William Heinemann, 1890.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ford, Gerald. Presidential address to a joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 12 Aug. 1974, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Thomas, Clarence. Quoted in The New York Times. 12 Oct. 1991. Originally a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 11 Oct. 1991, Washington, DC, USA.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.
I woke-and found that life was duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Beauty and Duty

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Hooper, Ellen Sturgis. "I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty." The Dial, July 1840.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Applesauce Press, 2011.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.