Sojourner Truth Quotes

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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Alcohol Drink Hold Myself
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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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Beautiful Book Enough Government Law Learning People Reading
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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Feeling Inspirational Myself Powerful Safety Truth Willing
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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Feminism Right Talk Women
I 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.
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Happiness Man Myself Right Water Woman
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
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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Brother Family Moon Sister Stars Togetherness
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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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Black God Himself Men Right Woman
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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Myself Old Responsibility Talk
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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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Ideas Myself Nation Reading See Vote
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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End God Home Leaving Myself
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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Better Feeling Give Up Ourselves Right Thinking Yourself
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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Greatness Myself Truth Wait
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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Alone Enough God Right Strong Woman World

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