American - Activist | 1797 - November 26, 1883
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.'
Sojourner Truth
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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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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The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
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I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
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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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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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When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
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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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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 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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I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?
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