The excerpts conflict because Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "The
American Dream" speech.
"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 pursuit of happiness."
Now read the excerpt from Governor George Wallace's
inaugural address
We invite the negro citizens of Alabama to work with us
from his separate racial station ... as we will work with
him... to develop, to grow in individual freedom and
enrichment
O the first suggests that life, liberty, and happiness are
basic rights, while the second suggests that freedom
is the only basic right.
the first suggests that all are born with equal rights,
while the second suggests that certain citizens need
to be separated in order to become equal.
O the second suggests that black citizens enjoy working
with white citizens, while the first suggests that black
citizens cannot work with white citizens.
O the second suggests that it is a racial group's own
responsibility to improve itself, while the first suggests
that this idea is a proven fact.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator