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 TRUTHLife is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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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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