Sojourner Truth Quotes

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

American women who know the history of this country will always resent the fact that American men chose to enfranchise Negroes fresh from slavery before enhancing their wives and mothers.

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

… few are the men who both appreciate women and genuinely care about their rights.

The position of women in SNCC is prone!

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will he recognized as the legal equals of men.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

Marriage has ever been a one-sided matter, resting most unequally upon the sexes. By it, man gains all- woman loses all; tyrant law and lust reign supreme with him- meek submission and ready obedience alone befit her.