Which lines in this excerpt from "song of myself” by walt whitman indicate that all human beings are equal in the poet’s eyes?

1. i am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
2. and i say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
3. and i say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
4. i chant the chant of dilation or pride,
we have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
i show that size is only development.

5. have you outstript the rest? are you the president?
6. it is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can