What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhat we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThat 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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHThen I will speak upon the ashes.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWe do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
SOJOURNER TRUTHThe Spirit calls me, and I must go.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhere there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
SOJOURNER TRUTHLife 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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
SOJOURNER TRUTHTruth is powerful and it prevails.
SOJOURNER TRUTHOh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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