Sojourner Truth Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• 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.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Would Be

  Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr

• You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

  Sojourner Truth

  Giving Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

• It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

  Sojourner Truth

  Spirit, Slave, Dies

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