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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHBecause of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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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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Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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