Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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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 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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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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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Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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