Sojourner Truth

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

• If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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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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• Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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

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• If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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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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• Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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

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

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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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• 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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• Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

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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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• Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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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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• Ef woman want any rights more'n dey's got, why don't dey jes' take 'em, and not be talkin' about it?

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• It is the mind that makes the body.

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• Truth burns up error.

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