Truth burns up error.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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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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I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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