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It is the mind that makes the body.
Truth burns up error.
And ar'n't I a woman?
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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.
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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.
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.'
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
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.
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
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.
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
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.
I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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.
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.
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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.
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.
Then 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 Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
