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“ Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it. ”

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I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

~ Sojourner Truth

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

~ Sojourner Truth

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

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.

~ Sojourner Truth