If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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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This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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You 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.
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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 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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Truth burns up error.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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