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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?"
"I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all."
"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 get theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before."
"I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
"Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter."
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?"
"It is the mind that makes the body rich."
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"I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the Bible and have learned that God made them man and woman."
"The Lord gave me 'Sojourner', because I was to travel up and down the land, showing the people their sins, and being a sign unto them."
"I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail."
"If we have to pay the men for caring for the babies then we 'll be allowed to tend them until we know as much"
"Then they talk about this thing in the head; what do they call it?"
"I want to keep the money yet I must pay the rent."
"I'm as strong as any man that is now."
"Can any man show me a reason why I ought not to be beaten for my kind of skin?"
"We must depopulate the scared ground. Look at my species."
"The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another. We are robbers all."
"Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff."
"I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all."
"When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name."
"Truth is powerful and it will prevail."
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"At least about the same is expected of them as from men."
"I know the hand that made us is Divine, which nobody can deny."
"I try to live united to the best I can."
"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again."
"I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the Bible and have learned that Eve caused Man to sin."
"I will not allow myself to be considered an inferior. I will be a hero."
"It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die, but die it must."
"When truth is buried, it grows; it chokes; it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it."
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again."
"I am not going to die. I'm going home like a shooting star."
"I am not afraid to walk this world alone."
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again."
"When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked Him to give me a new name."
"The Lord calls women as well as men to the work."
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"I am pleading for the mothers, who are far too sorrowful to plead for themselves."
"I feel safe in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is all powerful and will prevail."
"I am not going to die; I'm going home like a shooting star."
"It is the mind that makes the body."
"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."
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
"If they want a taste of my game, they better start treating me the same."
"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man."
"The Spirit calls me, and I must go."
"The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another."
"I don't read such small stuff."
"Comparisons are odious, they cause envy, they cause strife."
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
"When I left the house of bondage, I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name."
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?"
"I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman?"
"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."
"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?"
"I can't read, but I can hear."
"I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?"
"Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff."
"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
"The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another."
"It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or unhappy, rich or poor."
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!"
"I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me."
"I'm not going to hide just because people tell me I should."
"If my cup won't hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?"
"I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years when I am an angel."
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!"
"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."
"When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't worth a cent, and I carried nothing away from slavery but my own worth."
"I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail."
"We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much."
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