I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Truth burns up error.
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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 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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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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