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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIt is the mind that makes the body.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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When 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.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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Life 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.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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That 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?
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Truth burns up error.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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