Sojourner Truth Quotes

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  Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

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  Determination, Fighting, Light

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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 barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! 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 mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

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  Mother, Strong Women, Jesus

  Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I A Woman?”

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• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

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  Strong Women, Truth, Together

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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  I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Powerful

  "Narrative of Sojourner Truth".

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• 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 fruit.

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  Dream, Fruit, Bears

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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 me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

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  Land, Names, Two

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• Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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  Truth, Powerful, Black

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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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  Women, Rights, Talking

  "Sojourner Truth: A Self-made Woman". Book by Victoria Ortiz, 1974.

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  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 free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

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  Rights, Years, Would Be

  Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr

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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. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will
  take a great while to get it going again.

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  Truth, Men, Rights

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  The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

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  Rich, Poor

  Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert (2007). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.92, Prestwick House Inc

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• Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

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  Helping Others, Men, Volunteer

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• Then 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 Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

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  Men, Rights, Black

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

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  Men, Letters, Littles

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• I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

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  Inspiring, Death, Stars

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• 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 will step into the pool.

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  Men, Rights, Water

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• It is the mind that makes the body.

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  Positive, Truth, Health

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• Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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  Godly, African American, Humanity

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• I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

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  Truth, Waiting, Reform

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• 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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  Giving Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

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  Men, Rights, Can Do

  Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth (1878). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time: With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"”, p.33, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.

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  Giving, Lord, Poor

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.88, Penguin

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• The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

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  Spirit, Call Me

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• It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

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  Spirit, Slave, Dies

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• I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.

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  Beautiful, Glasses, Different

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