Sojourner Truth

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

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.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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

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

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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 your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

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

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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

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.

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 side up again.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

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.