5/11/2023 0 Comments The book of life sojourner truth![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A poor man would come along, saying she ought to have let him have the job he was poor, and needed the pay for his family. She would arise early, and perform the labor herself, putting the money into her own pocket. For instance–a gentleman where she lived would give her a dollar to hire a poor man to clear the new-fallen snow from the steps and side-walks. 'Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.' True, she had not received labor from others, and stinted their pay, as she felt had been practised against her but she had taken their work from them, which was their only means to get money, and was the same to them in the end. “After turning it in her mind for some time, she came to the conclusion, that she had been taking part in a great drama, which was, in itself, but one great system of robbery and wrong. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |