Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhere there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Truth burns up error.
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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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 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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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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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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.
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I am a woman’s rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
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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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