Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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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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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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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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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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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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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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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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