Quotes from 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.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

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.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

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 very poor human stuff.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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.