85 Quotes by Sojourner Truth

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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

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.

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.

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

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter

Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other?

I tell you I can’t read a book, but I can read de people.

It is the mind that makes the body.