Original: «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?».
Fuente: Citado en Krass, Heather Lehr Wagner. Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist. Editorial Infobase Publishing, 2009. ISBN 9781438100999. p. 52.
Sojourner Truth: Derecho
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«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».
Fuente: Discurso titulado ¿No soy una mujer? (ain't I a woman?) pronunciado en 1851, en la Convención de la Mujer, Akron, Ohio.
Original: «Well, children, when there is so much racket there be must something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women of the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?».
Fuente: Citado en Glenn, Cheryl. The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Concise. Editorial Cengage Learning, 2011. ISBN 9781133171461. p. 50.