Best Sojourner Truth Quotes

Sojourner Truth Quotes About Freedom, Equality, Religion, Abolition, God, Inspirational & Powerful! Sojourner Truth was a fighter for African-American women’s rights and the abolishment of slavery. As a slave in Ulster County, New York, Sojourner Truth was born in 1797. Her Given name was Isabella Baumfree, yet she switched her name in 1843 when she declared that God had ordered her to promote hope over the countryside.

In her early years, she was sold from one household to another. The Dumont family bought her in 1810 and sold her to a life of severe torture. Before slavery was outlawed in New York, Isabella and her baby departed the Dumont estate in 1826. She converted to Methodism on June 1, 1843, and took the name Sojourner Truth. While in Massachusetts, she met prominent suffragists and anti-slavery activists, including William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

For this reason, Garrison wrote The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. In addition, she spoke at the first national women’s rights conference and a women’s rights convention, both held that same year. She is known for her most renowned statement, “Ain’t I a Woman,” which she delivered at this event since the audience felt she was a man due to her strong presence.

Her exact words in this address are still up for controversy, but she called for equal rights for women and blacks. Truth has a reputation for being an effective communicator because of its status as a strong speaker. There were hundreds of people in the crowd as she spoke on slavery and suffrage. Even during American Civil War, Truth did help recruit black men for the Union Army. Then, she moved to Michigan, where she worked for the rights of ex-slaves. November 26, 1883, was the day of Truth’s death.

Best Sojourner Truth Quotes

1. “I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.” –Sojourner Truth

2. “I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.” – Sojourner Truth

3. “The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.” – Sojourner Truth

4. “I tell you I can’t read a book, but I can read de people.” – Sojourner Truth

5. “I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” –Sojourner Truth

6. “We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.” – Sojourner Truth

7. “Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.” –Sojourner Truth

8. “When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.” – Sojourner Truth

9. “Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.” – Sojourner Truth

10. “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

11. “I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren’t I a woman?” – Sojourner Truth

12. “If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” –Sojourner Truth

13. “Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.” – Sojourner Truth

14. “Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.” – Sojourner Truth

15. “It is the mind that makes the body.” ― Sojourner Truth

16. “Then I will speak upon the ashes.” – Sojourner Truth

17. “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

18. “Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.” – Sojourner Truth

19. “If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.” –Sojourner Truth

20. “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

21. “Truth burns up error.” – Sojourner Truth

22. “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

23. “I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….” – Sojourner Truth

24. “The Spirit calls me, and I must go.” – Sojourner Truth

25. “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

26. “I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.” – Sojourner Truth

27. “The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.” – Sojourner Truth

28. “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.” – Sojourner Truth

29. “Truth is powerful and it prevails.” – Sojourner Truth

30. “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.” – Sojourner Truth