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
determination fighting light
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.
egypt land names
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.
truth men rights
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. So 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.
godly humanity religion
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
dream fruit bears
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.
helping-others men trying
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.
strong-women truth together
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.
rights years would-be
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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.
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 slave dies
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
positive truth mind
It is the mind that makes the body.
rich poor
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
powerful enemy safe
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.