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• Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

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  Racket

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• 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.

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  Sister, Brother, Stars

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.27, Penguin

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• I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

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  Running, Daylight, Running Away

  Sojourner Truth (2012). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

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  Men, Christ

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.94, Penguin

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

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  Spirit, Slave, Dies

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• What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.

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  Giving, Lord, Poor

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.88, Penguin

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• 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?

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  Men, Giving, Justice

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• Truth burns up error.

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  Life, Truth, Errors

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Egypt, Names, Giving

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• 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?

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  Mean, Justice, Half

  Sojourner Truth (2017). “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)”, p.104, e-artnow

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• 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?

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  Mother, Jesus, Children

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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  Black History, Black, Want

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

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• 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.

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  Rights, Years, Ice

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.117, Penguin

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• I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

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  Writing, Men, Rights

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

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• Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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  Ashes, Speak, Women's Rights

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.97, Penguin

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• Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

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  Hearing, Sojourners, Birth

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• And ar'n't I a woman?

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  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.93, Penguin

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