Sojourner Truth Quotes

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

~ Sojourner Truth

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

~ Sojourner Truth

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

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.

~ Sojourner Truth

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

~ 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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

~ Sojourner Truth

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

~ Sojourner Truth

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

~ Sojourner Truth

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.

~ Sojourner Truth

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

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

~ Sojourner Truth

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

~ Sojourner Truth

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.

~ Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

~ Sojourner Truth