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Article: Grief.(quotations)(Quotation)
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- American Scholar
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- January 1, 2009
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I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me.
--SOJOURNER TRUTH, 1851
The unburdened mules moved off to their olive orchard. The men in the road seemed reluctant to leave. They stood around, and gradually one by one I could sense them moving close to Captain Waskow's body.... One soldier came and looked down, and he said out loud, "God damn it." That's all he said, and then he walked away.... Then a soldier came and stood beside the officer, and bent ...