Quotes by Sojourner Truth

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

“Then I will speak upon the ashes.”

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

“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...”

“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, tha...”

“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 ot...”

“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”

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

“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! ...”

“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

“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 wil...”

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

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

“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 everyb...”

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

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

“Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.”

“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 side up again.”

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

“Honey, I jes' walked round an' round in a dream. Jesus loved me! I knew it - I felt it. Jesus was my Jesus. Jesus would love me always. I didn't dare tell anybody; it was a great secret. Everything...”