16 Sojourner Truth Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sojourner Truth

American Activist

Born: 1797

Died: Nov 26, 1883

God Me Rights Will Women You

Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Elizabeth Cady Stanton Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Susan B. Anthony

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 your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth

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

Home Like Am Shooting Die Going Going Home Star

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. Sojourner Truth

Religion Humanity Stuff Without Very Human Poor

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people. Sojourner Truth

Truth Me Travel People Cause Down Everybody Everybody Else Gave Else Sign Had Name Names Unto Another Because Lord Sins Up Wanted Afterwards Them Declare Land Two

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another. Sojourner Truth

Rich Rob Another Poor

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

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. Sojourner Truth

Time You Liar Will Nothing Claims Kind Promise Recollect Promising Give Thus Like Terrible Privilege Being Fulfillment

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. Sojourner Truth

Great You Rights Women Word Will Men Before Bad See About Colored Over Masters Stir Get Getting Just

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. Sojourner Truth

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. Sojourner Truth

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

Work Religion Somebody Benefit Some Got Found

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman? Sojourner Truth

Me Man Woman Could Head Planted Gathered

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