Quiz 1

Instructions: Who said each quote?

1.) Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like bettering the condition of my race.

2.) Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two. Why then, tis time to do it. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, a soldier and afraid? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?. . . What, will these hands never be clean?

3.) Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns. . . I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it) and bear the lash as well. . . I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard.

4.) The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want. . . --everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . --anywhere in the world."

5.) If you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who. . . am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life.

6.) Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

8.) I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also. . . Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

10.) But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.

11.) O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain....We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him who is the source of Love....Amen.

12.) "I don't know what to do! I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a school-boy.... I don't know what day of the month it is! I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby."

13.) There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head
That curled like a lamb's back was shaved, so I said,
Hush, Tom, never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.

14.) One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.

15.) "Oh, Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming?"
"No. I haven't any anesthetic. But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they're not important."

16.) I dwell in Possibility --
A fairer House than Prose --
More numerous of Windows --
Superior -- for Doors --

17.) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

18.) We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

19.) I wish the rent,
Was heaven sent.

20.) Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.