Hypatia of Alexandria
1 In Alexandria there was a teacher of stars and number, and she spoke as if daylight were a right.
2 Power answered with a mob, for the library in a mind is harder to burn.
3 She was certain, sometimes sharp; her edges did not make her cruel — they made her clear.
4 They tore the body; they could not tear the idea that truth is public.
5 Her witness: reason as devotion; courage as offering; difference as gift.