Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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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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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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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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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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