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 feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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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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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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