Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
there was 1, then, mounted aloft; i, who had said i could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet
in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy. what my sensations
were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl
came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. what a strange light inspired them! what an
extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me! how the new feeling bore me up! it was as if a martyr, a
hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit. i mastered the rising hysteria, lifted
up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.
which statements identify inferences that can be reached from the passage? select all that apply.
accepting an unjust punishment can be empowering in that it reaffirms a person's convictions.
one should not feel shame when one is being unjustly punished.
when a person is unjustly punished, it reflects poorly on the perpetrator alone.
descriptions of physical punishment are often gratuitous and should be limited.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen