85 Quotes by Sojourner Truth

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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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

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

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.

And ar'n't I a woman?

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.