Quotes from Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body.

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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Frederick, is God dead?

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

That… man… says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from?… From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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.

It is the mind that makes the body.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,

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

We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.

Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other?