Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner TruthRead
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 colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of women's rights alongside men's rights in the quest for equality.
Sojourner Truth emphasizes that the struggle for rights must include both colored men and women, cautioning against a situation where men gain power while women remain oppressed. She warns that achieving rights for only one group does not ensure true equality, as it may lead to a different form of domination, making the struggle for gender equality an essential part of social justice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for gender equality in social justice movements.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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?
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
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?
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.
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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