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[That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man has nothing to do with him.

Source: Referring to a clergyman in the audience at a Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851.
-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18 1797?-1883), US abolitionist, reformer; She was a freed slave and noted orator who advocated emancipation and women's rights.

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