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  1. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    If you hear a different drummer, step to its music—what rhythm have you been ignoring?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  2. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    If one honest man refusing to cooperate could end an injustice, what are you cooperating with?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  3. The Prophet

    Fill one another’s cup but drink not from the same—how do you stay close and keep yourself?
    Kahlil Gibran

  4. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    I borrowed an axe and sharpened it—then watched a striped snake thaw and wondered why men remain torpid.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  5. The Prophet

    If your labor lacks love, what are you really building?
    Kahlil Gibran

  6. The Yellow Wallpaper

    A spot lolls like a broken neck, two bulbous eyes glaring upside-down—it's impossible not to feel watched.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    You lynching anybody? It’s laughable—you’re brave enough to tar and feather women by daylight, but not to lay hands on a man.
    Mark Twain

  8. The Prophet

    Can you divide life into 'this for God' and 'this for myself'—and still be whole?
    Kahlil Gibran

  9. The Odyssey

    He cannot resist naming himself the blinder of the Cyclops—will that boast be triumph or fatal error?
    Homer

  10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    They stripped Aunt Hester to the waist, tied her by a hook, and beat her until blood fell.
    John Chua

  11. The Odyssey

    Scylla plucks men like fish from the rocks—what choice keeps a ship when doom waits on both sides?
    Homer

  12. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    The horn sounded for breakfast—and I watched four whites ride up with two bound men.
    John Chua

  13. The Odyssey

    He chose a rugged island over two goddesses—because nothing is dearer than home and parents.
    Homer

  14. The Odyssey

    Not a god but your father—his revealed identity turns their reverence into a private reckoning.
    Homer

  15. Leaves of Grass

    I feared my love would be wasted; I loved ardently and received no return—what, then, was the true payment?
    Walt Whitman