Sojourner Truth Quotes

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.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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

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

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.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

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.