Sojourner Truth idézet

Sojourner Truth afroamerikai abolicionista és női jogi aktivista. Rabszolgának született a New York állambeli Swartekillben, de 1826-ban megszökött, csecsemő lányával együtt. Mikor bíróságra ment, hogy a fiát is megszerezze, ő lett az első fekete nő, aki ilyen ügyben pert nyert egy fehér férfival szemben. 1843-ban vette fel a Sojourner Truth nevet. Legismertebb beszéde, a nemi egyenlőtlenségekről szóló Ain't I a Woman? 1851-ben hangzott el Ohióban. Az amerikai polgárháború idején segített fekete katonákat toborozni az Unió seregébe. A háború után sikertelenül próbálta elérni a szövetségi kormánynál, hogy földet biztosítson a volt rabszolgáknak. Wikipedia  

✵ 1797 – 26. november 1883
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Sojourner Truth: Idézetek angolul

“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?”

Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Kontextus: 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? 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? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! 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?

“Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Kontextus: That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

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

As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
Változat: Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

“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?”

Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Kontextus: 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? 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? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! 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?

“That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman!”

Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Kontextus: That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

“But then there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud,- 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de white folks!”

Olive Gilbert & Sojourner Truth (1878), Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time, page 159.

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