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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHTruth burns up error.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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 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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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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