Which quotation from "Self-Reliance" best summarizes Emerson’s view on belief in oneself? These are the voices which we hear in solitude...
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance...
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- "in the declaration of independence, it is stated that all people have certain rights that can't be taken away. when the government fails to protect these rights, the people have no choice but to remove that government and replace it with a government that will do its job and protect the people's rights."

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.

the purpose is to inform because for some reason they really want you to know about it.