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.
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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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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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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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Life 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.
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I 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.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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