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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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 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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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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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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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