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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Truth burns up error.
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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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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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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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