Quotes from Sojourner Truth
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
- Sojourner Truth
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.
- Sojourner Truth
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
- Sojourner Truth
Then 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 Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
- Sojourner Truth
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
- Sojourner Truth
It is the mind that makes the body.
- Sojourner Truth
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 again.
- Sojourner Truth
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
- Sojourner Truth
Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,
- Sojourner Truth
We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.
- Sojourner Truth
Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.
- Sojourner Truth
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, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.
- Sojourner Truth