I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth And ar’n’t I a woman?
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Then I will speak upon the ashes.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth It is the mind that makes the body.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
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