"You have been having our rights so long,……" — Sojourner Truth
"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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Sojourner Truth
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29 Quotes by Sojourner Truth
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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