Sojourner Truth Quotes

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Sojourner Truth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Jim Brown

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When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

Joan Armatrading

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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.

John Ralston Saul

AttentionPenRealProtectionGet

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

Amy Chozick

ReligionThinkYouToo MuchBecome

All my life I've been that way - ever since I was a kid. It doesn't matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad - I didn't like losing then and didn't want to do anything but win when we played.

Tony Stewart

LifeLosingMomSisterWinMy Life

Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'

Rodney Stark

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What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Rooney Mara

FamilyMeYouEveryoneEverything

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

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Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

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I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

Julia Butterfly Hill

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