Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThe rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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 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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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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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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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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