Truth is powerful and it prevails.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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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Truth burns up error.
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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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