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 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 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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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