Faith & Spirit Quote by Sarah Good

It lands like a curse because it was never meant as poetry; it was meant as leverage in a room that had stripped her of every other kind. Sarah Good, hauled into the Salem proceedings as an easy target (poor, outspoken, already socially marked), doesn’t plead innocence in the polished language of respectability. She flips the court’s own fantasy back onto them: “witch” and “wizard” are matching nonsense, equally ridiculous costumes the authorities insist on treating as evidence. The line is a trapdoor under the judges’ feet: if you can call me a witch, I can call you a wizard. Same logic, same level of proof.

Then she pivots from mockery to threat, but it’s a threat that borrows its power from their worldview. “If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink” isn’t occult; it’s theological. Good reaches for divine justice because earthly justice is already gone. In Puritan New England, where providence was read in droughts, sickness, and bad luck, promising God’s retribution wasn’t melodrama - it was a culturally legible prediction. She’s saying: you can win the procedure and still lose the moral universe.

The subtext is raw class rage. Good can’t out-lawyer the magistrates or out-status the accusers; she can only expose the violence underneath their certainty. The quote survives because it captures the asymmetry of a moral panic: the powerless are asked to prove a negative, and when they can’t, they weaponize the only authority left - the idea that history, or God, keeps receipts.