“As we have already shed blood, we are ready to shed more blood!”
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Source: Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
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Women As Lovers (1994)
“As we have already shed blood, we are ready to shed more blood!”
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Source: Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
My Father's Gun
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) American abolitionist and suffragist
Remark made at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. (1855), quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (1972) by Miriam Schnier
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946) American feminist and legal activist
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'The Great Ball at Satan's', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: The Home and the World
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.