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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThen I will speak upon the ashes.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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If 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.
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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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If 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?
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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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Truth burns up error.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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