Occupation: Activist Death: November 26, 1883
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,….
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….
Truth burns up error..
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star..
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men..
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit..
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?….
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my lif….
It is the mind that makes the body..
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord..
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? W….
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not co….
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 crad….
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail..
Truth is powerful and it prevails..
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff..
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 ….
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..
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, an….
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There i….