Sojourner Truth Quotes

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
It is the mind that makes the body.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.
If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
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.
The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
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