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OUTCASTS AND DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICAN

//__The Scarlet Letter__// "If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on. This might be pride, but was so like humility, that it produced all the softening influence of the latter quality on the public mind. The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice, when too strenuously demanded as a right..." (Nathaniel Hawthorne 141).



Cross By Langston Hughes

My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder were I'm going to die, Being neither white nor black?

__The Radical Will__ "The puritan gets his sense of power not in the harmless way of the artist or the philosopher or the lover or the scientist, but in a crude assault on the most vulnerable part of other people's souls, their moral sense. He is far more dangerous to those he converts than to those he intimidates." (Randolph Bourne 305).

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