Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner TruthBaumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth18 November 1787
CountryUnited States of America
giving-up cutting thinking
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.
spirit call-me
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
talking rights african-american
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
book reading men
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!
sister brother stars
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.
men rights water
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.
men rights can-do
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?
mean justice littles
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
beautiful glasses different
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.
truth powerful black
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
positive truth mind
It is the mind that makes the body.
powerful enemy safe
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
truth waiting reform
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.
men rights black
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.