1. "Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

2. "Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

5.The Transcendentalists advocated an active participation in making social and political change, and supported equality.