Quotes by Sojourner Truth

“I am not going to die, Im going home like a shooting star.”

“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”

“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.”

“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

“[That little man in black says] woman cant have as much rights as man because Christ wasnt a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man has nothing to do with him.”

“It is the mind that makes the body.”

“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.”

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

Im not going to die, Im going home like a shooting star.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. 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.

If women want rights more than they got, why dont they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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.

Ef women want any rights moren dey got why dont dey jes take em and not be talkin about it.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

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.

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.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.