black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Truth burns up error.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Error One Liner Truth
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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Day Myself Run Walk
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Man Myself Reading
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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

Happiness Man Myself Right Water Woman
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

Equality Freedom Myself Right Slave Time
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
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

Dream Freedom Fruit Live Myself Seed
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Oneself Poor Rich Rob
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Death Home Myself Stars
It is the mind that makes the body.
SOJOURNER TRUTH

Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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

Alone Enough God Right Strong Woman World
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 God Himself Men Right 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
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

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!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sojourner Truth Quotes