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1851 - Then and 2015 - Now

12/18/2015

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One year old Baby injured in Monday Islamic terror attack lost his leg

According to an official, unnamed source, the baby boy injured in Monday's Jerusalem terror attack in which eleven people were wounded has lost his leg, according to a Tuesday morning report by the  Jerusalem Post's sister paper Maariv.

Family members refused to comment on the report. 
One year old baby was seriously injured in Islamic terror attack,
​ but the media ignores, and the world is silent


Hey we're going backwards all the time,
In 2015 it seems the world has nothing to say about terrorism
and its cruel consequences ​


Now 164 years ago,
a former slave rocked the world with these words:
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Actress Alfre Woodard performs a very moving piece from abolitionist, women's rights proponent, and former slave Sojourner Truth that was originally delivered in 1851.
Yep, before the Civil War, before the right to vote for anybody but white men ... THAT 1851.
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I A Woman?
Delivered 1851
Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?


That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? 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 thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, 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.
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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! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
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Curator: Brandon Weber​​
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    Writing is a pleasure that allows me to tell people a story of interest to myself which I hope will also be of interest to them, a true story of life, my life with a bit of history and happenings along the way.
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