Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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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 hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! 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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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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