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Sojourner Truth Quotes

Sojourner Truth quotes

American Activist November 18, 1787 – November 26, 1883

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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. Sojourner Truth
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... Sojourner Truth
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
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 Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all..."
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just..."
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff."
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "It is the mind that makes the body."
It is the mind that makes the body. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much."
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of..."
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth quote: "Then I will speak upon the ashes."
Then I will speak upon the ashes. Sojourner Truth

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