![]() e., those men who in the full possession of freedom, lacking nothing but wealth, achieve distinction and success. SOJOURNER TRUTH once remarked, in reply to an allusion to the late Horace Greeley, "You call him a self-made man well, I am a self-made woman." The world is ever ready to sound the praises of the so-called self-made men i. Man had nothing to do with him." Again, in defense of mother Eve: "If de furst woman God ever made was strong 'nuff to turn de world upside down all 'lone, dese togedder ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again and now dey is askin' to do it, de men better let 'em." Her shrewd repartee and wise sayings amount to proverbs, as when Douglass was forecasting the sad fate of the race in the old slave days, she asked: "Is God dead, Frederick?" or when superior rights and privileges were claimed for men because of the manhood of Christ she asked: "Where did your Christ come from? From God and woman. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 1883 - Interviews.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.ĮMANCIPATED BY THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE IN THEĮntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, ![]()
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