Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
SOJOURNER TRUTHReligion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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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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Truth burns up error.
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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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 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.
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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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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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