Quotes from Sojourner Truth

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

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