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…
• 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…
• Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to…
• Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
• 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…
• 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…
• It is the mind that makes the body.
• Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter
• The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
• We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
• 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…
• If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
• 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…
• Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
• 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…
• It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
• Truth burns up error.
• Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
• Truth is powerful and it prevails.
• I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

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