If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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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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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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