“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, the women together ought to be able to turn back and get it right side up again! and now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
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African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1797–1883Related quotes
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 105)
"Honoria" (1957); republished in The New American, Vol. 19, No. 20, (6 October 2003)
1950s
“Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
"Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
Context: Teach the crippled how to leap,
Throw their crutches on a heap,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Rock, love, carry it away,
Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
“We are the people who turned the world upside down.”
Attributed to Lee in "Harpy Hall of Fame: Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784)" at The Pursuit of Harpyness (4 February 2009) http://www.harpyness.com/2009/02/04/harpy-hall-of-fame-mother-ann-lee-1736-1784/; no earlier attributions have as yet been located.
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