Sojourner Truth Quotes
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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…
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went…
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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to…
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could…
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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…
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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…
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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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And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my…
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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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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…
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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Truth burns up error.
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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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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
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