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I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more… — Sojourner Truth

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I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth
1867
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Equal rightsEqualityPolitical progressPoliticsActivism
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1867
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Sojourner Truth
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Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.

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