That little man... He says women can't have as much rights as men, cause 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.

Sojourner Truth

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Topic

Women's rights

Speaker

Sojourner Truth

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Women's rights activist Abolitionist Activist

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.

Current Citation

Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Equanimity
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 30 Sept. 1859, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.