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?
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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And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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Truth burns up error.
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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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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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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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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