Words matter. These are the best Sojourner Truth Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I tell you I can’t read a book, but I can read de people.
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.
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.
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.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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.
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.
It is the mind that makes the body.
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
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?
Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.
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.
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an’ I always preaches from this one. My text is, ‘When I found Jesus.’
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 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.
