"If women want any rights more than they's……" — Sojourner Truth
"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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Sojourner Truth
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29 Quotes by Sojourner Truth
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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have…
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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…
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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then…
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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…
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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been 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.…
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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…
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