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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 51.

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King Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Harper & Row, 1967, ch. 4.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 7.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 7.

How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Bob Dylan

Like a Rolling Stone

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Dylan, Bob. "Like a Rolling Stone." Highway 61 Revisited. Columbia Records, 1965.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 2.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 2.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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Ali, Muhammad. Statement after fighting Henry Cooper. Boxing match. 18 June 1963, Wembley Stadium, London, England, UK.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Dylan, Bob. "The Times They Are a-Changin'." The Times They Are a-Changin'. Columbia Records, 1965.

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Twain, Mark. Note to Frank Marshall White. 31 May 1897.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, edited by Gary Scharnhorst. University Alabama Press, 2006, ch. 6.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Ali, Muhammad. Quoted in "I Ain't Got No Quarrel with them Viet Cong." Written by Bob Orkland. The New York Times, 27 June 2017. Originally a press conference. 28 Apr. 1967, Louisville, KY, USA.

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Whitman, Walt. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, I. 1. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, I. 1.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 1, I. 1.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 3.