And ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf 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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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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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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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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 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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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