Read the quotation below. i am not a labor leader. i don't want you to follow me or anyone else. if you are looking for a moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. i would not lead you into this promised land if i could, because if i could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. —eugene debs using the text from the reading, why do you think debs does not consider himself to be a “labor leader”? debs worked for other causes besides labor. debs wanted to be considered a savior for laborers instead. debs would like to lead people into the “promised land”: socialism.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.