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Women's rights2 quotes
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? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well! 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? — Sojourner Truth · 1851That little man... 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. — Sojourner Truth · 1851Activism1 quote
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 · 1867Equal rights1 quote
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 · 1867Equality1 quote
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 · 1867Intersectionality1 quote
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? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well! 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? — Sojourner Truth · 1851Political progress1 quote
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 · 1867Politics1 quote
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 · 1867Racism1 quote
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? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well! 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? — Sojourner Truth · 1851