I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
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And 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?
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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Truth burns up error.
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I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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