Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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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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I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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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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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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