Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

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

This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

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.

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?