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If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em.
— Sojourner Truth
Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!
— Sojourner Truth
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
— St. Augustine
Let truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven.
— St. Augustine
Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.
— St. Augustine
For, as far as this life of mortals is concerned, which is spent and ended in a few days, what does it matter under whose government a dying man lives, if they who govern do not force him to impiety and iniquity?
— St. Augustine
For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?
— St. Augustine
Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.
— St. Augustine
An unjust law is no law at all.
— St. Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity.
— St. Augustine