It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThose 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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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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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