Sojourner Truth Quotes (15 Quotes)

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.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

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

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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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.

Quoting Oprah Winfrey, TV personality, regarding the women pioneers I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

That little man in black says woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from . . . From God and a woman. Man has nothing to do with him.

That ... man ... says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from ... From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

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.

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 glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.