Which comparison from walden conveys thoreau’s belief that people do not have to conform to what everyone around them is doing?

a.
if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

b.
still we live meanly, like ants.

c.
like pygmies we fight with cranes.

d.
in the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands.

President clinton, on the fortieth anniversary of the events in arkansas surrounding the "little rock nine," stated that "when the constitutional rights of our citizens are threatened, the national government must guarantee them." this principle was the basis for using federal authority in: the expansion of voting rights to women. the passage of the civil rights act of 1964. the passage of the americans with disabilities act. all of the choices.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. —"the gettysburg address," abraham lincoln which quotation correctly uses an ellipsis to shorten lincoln’s words?

Nationalsim led to major conflicts following world war1 especially when