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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (/soʊˈdʒɜːrnər ˈtruːθ/; born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

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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?

Can Do, Chopped, Man, Men, Mowed, Rights

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.

Rights, Years, Would Be, Time, Forty

I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.

Beautiful, Commotion, Different, Glasses, Sojourn, Vote

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Poor, Rich, Rob

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

Birth, Hearing, Obliged, Old, Sojourners

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.

Come, Men, Rights, Write, Writing

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

Black, Black History, Eat, Want

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Big, Honey, Letters, Like, Littles, Men

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.

Inspirational, Truth, Powerful, Midst, Prevail

The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

Call Me, Spirit

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

Giving, Lend, Lord, Poor

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

Names, Two, Egypt, Everything, Nothing

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?

Children, Heard, Jesus, Mother, Woman

I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. . . . We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Cradler, Done, Keeping, Men, Twice, Want

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.

Keeping, Reform, Take, Till, Truth, Waiting

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.

Strong Women, Truth, Together, Woman, Right

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

Die, Dies, Hard, Holding, Slave, Spirit

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?

Ditches, Giving, Helps, Justice, Men, Says

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Rights, Take, Talking, Women

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!

Book, Men, Millstone, Read, Reading

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