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American Self-Making & Self-Help, Enlightenment/Religion,…

- - - - Edgar Allan Poe Quote, "But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee— With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me."
      - Sui Sin Far Excerpt,“Because I am a Chinese woman,” she answered.
        “You are not,” cried Mark Carson, fiercely. “You cannot say that now, Pan. You are
        a white woman—white. Did your kiss not promise me that?”
        “A white woman!” echoed Pan her voice rising high and clear to the stars above them.
        “I would not be a white woman for all the world. You are a white man. And what is a
        promise to a white man!”
- - - - Henry David Thoreau Quote, "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable."
- - - - Thomas Paine Quote, "In America, the rule of law is king. But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain."
  - - - Cotton Mather Quote,
        “Wherefore The devil is now making one Attempt more upon us; an Attempt more Difficult, more Surprizing, more snarl’d with unintelligible Circumstances than any that we have hitherto Encountered”
        
        W.E.B Du Bois Quote, "Because for three long centuries this people lynched Negroes who dared to be brave, raped black women who dared to be virtuous, crushed dark-hued youth who dared to be ambitious, and encouraged and made to flourish servility and lewdness and apathy."
        
        I Think this quote falls under building a nation because this was during a crucial period of time African Americans were being discriminated against.
        
        The Chinese Exclusion Act. I felt as if providing a brief video might better help explain this issue rather than finding something from the actual document. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K88pWCimZg
        
        E.A. Ross Excerpt,The foreigners attend church regularly, but their noisy amusements
        banish the quiet Sunday. The foreign men, three-eighths of whom are illiterate, pride
        themselves on their physical strength rather than on their skill, and are willing to take
        jobs requiring nothing but brawn.
        
        F. Scott Fitzgerald's, "Echoes of the Jazz Age". Fitzgerald states, "We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun? Isolated during the European War, we had begun combing the unknown South and West for folkways and pastimes, and there were more ready to hand. "
    - - Theodore Roosevelt Quote, "He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard and play hard. He must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against all comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud."