I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people. Sojourner Truth More Quotes by Sojourner Truth More Quotes From Sojourner Truth I did not run away, I walked away by daylight…. Sojourner Truth running-awaydaylightrunning I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside. Sojourner Truth glassesdifferentbeautiful I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. Sojourner Truth wantpaymen It is the mind that makes the body. Sojourner Truth healthtruthpositive 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 sisterstarsbrother Truth burns up error. Sojourner Truth errorstruthlife Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him. Sojourner Truth menchrist Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. Sojourner Truth racket That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Sojourner Truth justicegivingmen It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must. Sojourner Truth slavediesspirit I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter! Sojourner Truth readingmenbook If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? Sojourner Truth halfjusticemean 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? Sojourner Truth motherchildrenjesus What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord. Sojourner Truth poorlordgiving The Spirit calls me, and I must go. Sojourner Truth call-mespirit When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name. Sojourner Truth egyptnamesgiving We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. Sojourner Truth black-historyblackwant I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked. Sojourner Truth icerightsyears 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. Sojourner Truth rightswritingmen 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. Sojourner Truth readingbeautifulbook
