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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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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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?
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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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Christ came 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 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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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Truth burns up error.
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Christ came 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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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