Tag: Sojourner Truth
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Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
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I tell you I can’t read a book, but I can read de people.
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That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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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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The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
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If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.
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