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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

Source: Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, Akron, OH, 29 May 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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