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.
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.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Truth burns up error.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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I 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.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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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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