Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”
Canto I, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
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Letter to Alexei Pleshcheev (October 4, 1888)
Letters
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246
Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 53
“You've given me strength to find home.”
"Two Worlds Collide"
Lyrics, Don't Forget (2008)
“Easily seen is the strength that is given from Zeus to mortals.”
XV. 490 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Geometry as a Branch of Physics (1949)
Letter to E.M. Shavrova (April 6, 1892)
Letters
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.