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American Self-Making & Self Help, Individualism, Different…

- - - - "Let every man make known what
        kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." (Thoreau)
  - - - Carnegie "Gospel of Wealth"
        
        "The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship." (Carnegie)
- - - - Rowlandson
        
        "I then remembered how careless I had been of God's holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God's sight" (Rowlandson)
    - - John Winthrop
        
        "We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us."
- - - - Ragged Dick
        
        Parallels to Ben Franklin
  - - - "I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation." (Douglass)
- - - - Jenny Odell "Surviving Usefulness"
        
        "Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram act like dams that capitalize on our natural interest in others and an ageless need for community.”
  - - - "Oh, they're going to play another encore. Oh, goody. Oh, that's lovely. Tired? I
        should say I'm not tired. I'd like to go on like this forever"
- - - - "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
        This is a very strong quote by MLK Jr. that shows what needed to happen for the Civil rights movement
      - Malcolm X
        
        "And you sure don’t catch hell ’cause you’re an American; ’cause if you was an American, you wouldn’t catch no hell. You catch hell ’cause you’re a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason."
    - - "It is NO longer possible to ignore that voice, to dismiss the desperation of so
        many American women"
        She is describing the psychological despair that women face.
- - - - "Were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race,'Cast down your bucket where you are.'"
- - - - Theodore Roosevelt
        
        "It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud."
      - Henry Ford
        
        Shows how passion can lead to bad things such as his antisemitism. "He became convinced that a hostile press controlled by banks and other powerful financial interests was campaigning against him." (Henry Ford and Antisemitism)
      - Edgar Allen Poe
        
        Edgar Allen Poe goes against the norm at the time by saying that men are flawed and gives opinions. "There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.”"