| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61783 |
| QUOTATION: | You are de cause of de brutality of these poor creeters. For you’re de children of those who enslaved dem.... You are ready to help de heathen in foreign lands, but don’t care for the heathen right about you. I want you to sign petitions to send to Washington. Dey say there dey will do what de people want. The majority rules. If dey want anything good dey git it. If dey want anything not right dey git it too. You send these petitions, and those men in Congress will have something to spout about. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sojourner Truth (c. 1777–1883), African American slave; later an itinerant preacher and advocate of various social reforms including abolition, woman suffrage, and temperance. As quoted in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, part 2: “Book of Life,” by Frances W. Titus (1875).
Said c. 1860 to a gathering in Rochester, New York. |
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