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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd 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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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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I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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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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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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