Sojourner Truth Quotes

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.

Sojourner Truth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: 1797 - November 26, 1883

Topics

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I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.

Melky Cabrera

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Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.

Meltem Demirors

GoodMoneyPersonalAlwaysQuest

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Jeb Bush

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If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

Anand Mahindra

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Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.

Stef Wertheimer

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Nothing beats Delhi when it comes to food. It has some fantastic restaurants and street-food joints.

Sidharth Malhotra

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Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

Tracy K. Smith

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There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

Mike Lee

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Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Jason Fried

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I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Arne Duncan

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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Pico Iyer

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