I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
SOJOURNER TRUTHObliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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 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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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 am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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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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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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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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