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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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I 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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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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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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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 feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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Truth burns up error.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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