Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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Truth burns up error.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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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 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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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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