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.
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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And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Truth burns up error.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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