PLEASE HELP KIRI :D Which lines from the passage support the theme “true strength is knowing when not to act”?
A) “Here is your part: at break of day tomorrow / home with you, go mingle with our princes.”
B) “The swineherd later on will take me down / the port-side trail – a beggar, by my looks, / hangdog and old.”
C) “If they make fun of me / in my own courtyard, let your ribs cage up / your springing heart, no matter what I suffer.”

“If they make fun of me / in my own courtyard, let your ribs cage up / your springing heart, no matter what I suffer.”

Explanation:

In Homer's "The Odyssey", the protagonist Odysseus's journey back home to Ithaca covers the whole plot. Encounters with gods and enemies, be it mortal or gods and eventually coming to his kingdom, he had been through two decades of being away from home.

The given passage is from Book XVI of the text where Odysseus finally reveals himself to his son Telemachus. But his son refused to believe him, for he had been gone for so long, believing that the gods are playing tricks on him. But Odysseus told him to go back to their palace and meet the suitors of his mother Penelope. He also told him that even though the suitors may act rough and violent with him (disguised as a beggar), Telemachus should not interfere for there's a plan for all things he's going to do. The advice resonates with the theme of "true strength is knowing when not to act", which is evident in his advice when he told him to "hold down your anger".

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.