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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
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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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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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 not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Truth burns up error.
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I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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