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American Self-making and Self-Help! - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In his 1849 piece “On Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau concludes, "The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire" (Thoreau 3).
    - - In his 1936 book titled, "How this Book was Written and Why," Dale Carnegie explains how to become the person you want to be by saying, "Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual" (Carnegie 42).
  - - - In “On Common Sense”, Paine declares "...by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other" (Paine 2).
    - - The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution...Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
    - - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
- - - - In John Winthrop's “A Model of Christian Charity,” he urges, "...that ourselves and posterity may be the better preserved from the common corruptions of this evil world, to serve the Lord and work out our Salvation under the power and purity of his holy ordinances" (Winthrop Paragraph 17).
    - - "I plead not for his life, but for his character,--his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light."
  - - - In his book "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," Douglass exclaims, "The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance. I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it" (Douglass 67).
- - - - When recalling his lost love, Poe writes, "But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee" (Poe Line 27).
- - - - Booker T Washington
        
        In his speech delivered at the 1895 Atlanta Compromise, Booker T. Washington pleads, “you shall have at all times the patient, sympathetic help of my race... Let us pray God, will come, in a blooding out of sectional differences and racial animosities and suspicions, and in a determination to administer absolute justice, and a willing obedience among all classes to the mandates of the law. This, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into our beloved South a new haven and a new earth” (Washington P.11)
      - W.E.B. Du Bois
        
        When concluding his 1903 piece “The Talented Tenth,” W.E.B. Du Bois asserted, “Men of America, the problem is plain before you. Here is a race transplanted through the criminal foolishness of your fathers. Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down. Education and work are the levers to uplift a people” (Du Bois 16).
      - Martin Luther King Jr.
        
        In his 1963 letter from Birmingham jail, when Martin Luther King Jr. calls for direct action in regards to racial change, he states, "My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily... We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" (King Jr. III).
  - - - Andrew Carnegie
        
        In his 1889 piece, “The Gospel Of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie makes it clear that, “Today the world obtains commodities of excellent quality at prices which even the preceding generation would have deemed incredible. In the commercial world similar causes have produced similar results, and the race is benefited there by. The poor enjoy with the rich could not before afford. What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life...” (Carnegie 2).
      - Jacob Riis
        
        In “How the Other Half Lives,” by Jacob Riis, when describing the state of the New York City slums, he sadly states, “when nothing is now better understood than that the rescue of the children is the key to the problem of city poverty, as presented for our solution to Dash day; that character may be formed where to reform it would be a hopeless task” (Riis P3).
    - - Frederick Winslow Taylor
        
        In Frederick Winslow Taylor’s “The Principals of Scientific Management”, when describing the newly reformed labor system, he states, “under the old type of management success depends almost entirely upon the "initiative quote of the workmen, and it is indeed a rare case in which this initiative is really attained... it is this combination of the initiative of the workmen, coupled with the new types of work done by the management, that makes scientific management so much more efficient than the old plan” (Taylor Ch2)
- - - - When describing her reasoning for supporting the classic roles of women in a nuclear family, Phyllis Schlafly deliberates, "Women’s libbers do not speak for the majority of American women. American women do not want to be liberated from husbands and children. We do not want to trade our birthright of the special privileges of American women—for the mess of pottage called the Equal Rights Amendment. Modern technology and opportunity have not discovered any nobler or more satisfying or more creative career for a woman than marriage and motherhood" (Schlafly Paragraph 15).