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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More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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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.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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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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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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I 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?
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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