And ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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?
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhat we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
SOJOURNER TRUTHTruth is powerful and it prevails.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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 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 TRUTHI did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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 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 TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHReligion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhen I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
SOJOURNER TRUTHObliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
SOJOURNER TRUTH