Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer
Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".
“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”
Song to the Men of England http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/673/ (1819), st. 1
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
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William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Reputedly Tyndale's last words while tied to the stake, as quoted in the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe. Contemporary accounts do not mention this statement: "Contemporaries noted no such words, however, only that the strangling was bungled and that he suffered terribly." Brian Moynahan, in God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible — A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal (2002) p. 377.
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
This is the voice of our conscience, telling us of the righteousness of God. And since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what it tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact — the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous. Our only question is what attitude toward the fact we ought to take.
We shall hardly approach the fact with our critical reason. The reason sees the small and the larger but not the large. It sees the preliminary, but not the final, the derived but not the original, the complex but not the simple. It sees what is human but not what is divine.
We shall hardly be taught this fact by men.
"The Righteousness of God" (1916) in The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928) as translated by Douglas Horton; this passage begins with a quote of Isaiah 40:3-5; often quoted alone has been the phrase following it: "Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."
“The men of England — the men, I mean of light and leading in England.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Volume iii, p. 365
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field?”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
"Free Hope" p. 127.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) English Methodist and hymn writer
Wesley J and Wesley C (1743), "Hymns and Sacred Poems", 4th edition, page 144, at archive.org. https://archive.org/details/hymnsandsacredpo00wesliala <br class="br">Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
“The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.”
Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 90
Context: The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause. Men may write and agitate, they may scream never so shrilly about the wrongs of the world, but when they go forth to fight single-handed and to die for what they preach, they have at least earned the right to demand of society an inquiry.