Quotes by Sojourner Truth

About Sojourner Truth:

Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
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It is the mind that makes the body.

Sojourner Truth

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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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.

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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.

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If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

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Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Sojourner 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

Author Bio

  • NameSojourner Truth
  • DescriptionAfrican-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
  • AliasesIsabella Baumfree
  • Born1797
  • DiedNovember 26, 1883
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSlave; Author; Human Rights Activist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame