Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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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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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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