Sojourner Truth

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

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

— Sojourner Truth

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

Wall, childern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin’ out o’ kilter.

— Sojourner Truth

Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! … Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had notin’ to do wid Him.

— Sojourner Truth

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

Truth burns up error.

— Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body.

— Sojourner Truth