"shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!"

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Source : Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.30, Indiana University Press

Maria W. Stewart

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“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”
“Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
“Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.”
“If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ciara on One Woman Army, Being Vulnerable and Who Her New Song 'Sorry' is Really About". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. September 10, 2012.
“I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.”
“I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.”
“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
“One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.”

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