American - Activist | 1797 - November 26, 1883
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
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I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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