The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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Truth burns up error.
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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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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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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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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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