Explain these quotes:

What important point or points exist in a quote?  

• Explain these in writing, in the third person (no I or you)

• Try to pick a phrase out from the larger quotes and explain that in context of a larger idea, an idea that is arguing something about how the larger world works.

• Try to explain the actions taken by the sentences... 
• Is he contrasting something...
• Is he making analogies, and why...
• Is he stating facts...
• How is he trying to persuade readers--with personal experience, emotion, logic, facts

• DO NOT BE A ROBOT or a parrot. Put the idea into your own language. 

Quote 1: "Democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are specimens of sin, so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God."

Quote 2: "And if I were closer it would be because I chose to be, not because of destiny written in DNA. My great error was not that I had accepted someone else’s dream but that I had accepted the fact of dreams, the need for escape, and the invention of racecraft."

Quote 3: "This realization was important but intellectual. It could not save my body. Indeed, it made me understand what the loss of all our black bodies really meant. No one of us were “black people.” We were individuals, a one of one, and when we died there was nothing. Always remember that Trayvon Martin was a boy, that Tamir Rice was a particular boy, that Jordan Davis was a boy, like you. When you hear these names think of all the wealth poured into them."