A+Cup+of+Joe

//If you’re a good citizen, you always do what the government expects.//

Whether its a government, a school, or a group of friends, I want to be a good person, even if it makes me a bad "citizen." I want to retain who I am throughout life. I want to have the courage to change what I can, accept what I can't, and know the difference between the two.

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I ask permission to cross [|into the forbidden woods.] It is my duty to wash my hands of it  [|It has weighed on my thoughts.]  The history of liberty is a history of [|resistance]. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

They force me to become like themselves What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We." [|They will forget themselves] Their every truth is not quite true.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? Imitation is suicide. Men have avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled Because it is my name. [|At this moment i resolve to fight]

I notice two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and error has fled before them Get up, stand up You could be honest too if you try. Would you turn the other cheek?



Few have the greatness to bend history itself But resistance is not futile nor can in books be read the legend of a life more benedight.

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