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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHIf 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?
More Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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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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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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And ar’n’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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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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