Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHYou have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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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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