I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
SOJOURNER TRUTHOh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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 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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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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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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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