SOJOURNER TRUTH

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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.

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

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

It is the mind that makes the body.

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

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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.

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... Women work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money.

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.

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? ... I have plowed, 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 borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me -- and ain't I woman?

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

… that's what I do. The Lord has made me a sign unto this nation, an' I go round a'testifyin', an' showin' on 'em their sins agin my people

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

And the Lord gave me [the name] “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, an' the Lord gave me “Truth”, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

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?

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.

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.'

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.