When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
SOJOURNER TRUTHBecause of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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.
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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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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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I am a woman’s rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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.
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Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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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.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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