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 TRUTHThen 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 TRUTHIf 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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhat we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIt is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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 TRUTHWhere there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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 TRUTHThe rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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 TRUTHI am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
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 TRUTHThe Spirit calls me, and I must go.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTHI feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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