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Sojourner Truth Quotes

By Jessica McElrath, About.com

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

  • If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

  • It is the mind that makes the body.

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

  • Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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