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.
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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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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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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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Truth burns up error.
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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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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