Truth is powerful and it prevails.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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; 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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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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?
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Truth burns up error.
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