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 feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
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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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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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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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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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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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