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Sojourner Truth Quotes

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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) 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  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I did not run away, I walked away by daylight…  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Truth burns up error  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) It is the mind that makes the body  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Then I will speak upon the ashes  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I am above eighty years old... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) 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  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) 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?  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all  (Sojourner Truth Quotes) Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show  (Sojourner Truth Quotes)