85 Quotes by Sojourner Truth

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.

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

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

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.

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.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.