Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhere there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd ar’n’t I a woman?
SOJOURNER TRUTHReligion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
SOJOURNER TRUTHAnd 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 TRUTHObliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThen I will speak upon the ashes.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThe rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
SOJOURNER TRUTHThe Spirit calls me, and I must go.
SOJOURNER TRUTHI 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 TRUTHTruth burns up error.
SOJOURNER TRUTHChrist came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
SOJOURNER TRUTHLife 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 TRUTHThose 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 TRUTHIf 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 TRUTHThen 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