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 More Quotes by Sojourner Truth More Quotes From Sojourner Truth Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. Sojourner Truth fighting light determination And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! 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 strong-women mother jesus If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Sojourner Truth strong-women truth together Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. Sojourner Truth fruit bears dream I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. Sojourner Truth powerful truth inspirational If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it? Sojourner Truth women rights talking When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people. Sojourner Truth land names two There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored Sojourner Truth truth rights men Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable. Sojourner Truth volunteer helping-others men Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth black rights men I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. Sojourner Truth rights would-be years The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another. Sojourner Truth rich poor Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth black powerful truth Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men. Sojourner Truth letters littles men I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool. Sojourner Truth rights water men 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. Sojourner Truth giving-up cutting thinking I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? Sojourner Truth rights can-do men Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. Sojourner Truth african-american godly humanity I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. Sojourner Truth stars inspiring death I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. Sojourner Truth reform truth waiting
