And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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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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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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