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=**__[|Self-Reliance]__**= Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Emerson believes that everyone should always believe in their self and to be sure about the decisions they make because if one cannot do that then they are no longer who they truly are. People who don’t speak wha[[image:http://wzus.ask.com/r?t=a&d=us&s=a&c=p&ti=1&ai=30751&l=dir&o=333&sv=0a30051c&ip=45ea1813&u=http://www.applejuice.org/smartsipimages/strong.jpg align="right"]]t they believe who would rather not be heard are merely invisible and lose the very purpose with which God gave them birth.
 * He wants people to listen to their hearts and not what others are saying, Emerson questions if it is so bad to be misunderstood because to be misunderstood is to be oneself. To be willing to put out your thoughts is to prove what is right. "To be great is to be misunderstood"
 * He doesn't want people to be what society wants them to be, because when one loses their own color in the melting pot then there is no point in looking different because you have become like everyone else.
 * Emerson points out that the greatest people of history have been misunderstood because they boldly stood for what they believed fearless of what others believe. To be strong is not to be muscular but to be able to stand for what is right, be proud and self-reliable.

//**"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."**//