“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.”

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

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.

Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?

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.

And ar’n’t I a woman?

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.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

It is the mind that makes the body.

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.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.

Truth burns up error.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.