Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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And ar’n’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 I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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