Additional Essay Prompts-Quotations
                                
Agree or disagree with the following quotations, using two well-
 reasoned examples from history, literature, current events, or
                      personal experience.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-
line-the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in
Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
  -W.E.B. Du Bois

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous
thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their
pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride
from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the
difference between the artist and the scholar.
  -Margaret Anderson

We are now in the Me Decade-seeing the upward roll of . the third
great religious wave in American history.
  -Tom Wolfe

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more
positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in
human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
  -Walt Whitman

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior
citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the
opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity-and the
opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have
earned.
  -John F. Kennedy

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his
rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the
privilege of living in a free community.
  -Theodore Roosevelt

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize
that we ought to control our thoughts.
  -Charles Darwin

There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is
an orphan.
  -John F. Kennedy

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism
and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the
possession of the world ever since it was made.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have
need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have
need of good morals.
  -Niccol• Machiavelli

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect,
in that order.. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men
who want to be loved.
  -Edward R. Murrow

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be
the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he
has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to
it, is what I as stedfastly believe.
  -Thomas Jefferson

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
  -Winston Churchill

Celerity is never more admired / Than by the negligent.
  -William Shakespeare

If you want a decision, go to the point of danger.
  -James M. Gavin