black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Human Humanity Poor Religion
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

Beautiful Book Enough Government Law Learning People Reading
And ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Myself One Liner Woman
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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

Help Man Myself Need Place Woman
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

Ideas Myself Nation Reading See Vote
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

Alcohol Drink Hold Myself
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

Children Cry Grief Mom Myself Slave Woman
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Death Hold Slave Spirit
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

End God Home Leaving Myself
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Man Myself Reading
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

Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work
It is the mind that makes the body.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
Truth burns up error.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Error One Liner Truth
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

Feminism Right Talk Women
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

Greatness Myself Truth Wait

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sojourner Truth Quotes