Quotes from Sojourner Truth
If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.
- Sojourner Truth
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
- 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 side up again.
- Sojourner Truth
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
- Sojourner Truth
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
- Sojourner Truth
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
- Sojourner Truth
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
- Sojourner Truth
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
- Sojourner Truth
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
- Sojourner Truth
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
- Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.
- Sojourner Truth