Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhat we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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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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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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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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