Tag: Sojourner Truth
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
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It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
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The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
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God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
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There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
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Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
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Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.
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The Lord gave me ‘Sojourner,’ because I was to travel up an’ down the land, showin’ the people their sins an’ bein’ a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name ’cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me ‘Truth,’ because I was to declare the truth to people.
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When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an’ I always preaches from this one. My text is, ‘When I found Jesus.’
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