Sojourner Truth Truth Quotations

Truth burns up error.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

It is the mind that makes the body.

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.

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.

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.