I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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 am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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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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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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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