Quotes from Sojourner Truth

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!

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.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

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

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.

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