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Sojourner Truth was an American civil rights and social justice activist, renowned for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Born into slavery, she experienced the transition from bondage to freedom and became one of the most influential speakers of the 19th century.

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Famous Sojourner Truth Quotes

“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.”

Ifs Littles Hard Light Life Is Fighting Darkness Laughing Easier Battle Determination Determined Activism Good Fight Fight The Good Fight

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“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.”

Ifs Stills Truth Waiting Truth Is Activism Reform Stirring

Book:The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings

Source: The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings

“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?”

Ifs Mean Littles Justice Half Let Me Cups Pints Half Measures

Book:The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)

Source: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)

“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.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Looks Different Beautiful Dies First Time Vote Glasses Boxes Globes Ballots Before I Die

Author:Sojourner Truth

“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.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Made Enough Truth Able Together Turns Strong Women Sides Ought Truth Is Asking Strong Women Strong Enough Upside Down All Alone World Upside Down

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“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?”

Ifs Want Women Talking Rights African American Women Want

Author:Sojourner Truth

“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.”

Ifs Men Stills Truth Waiting Rights Masters Truth Is Stirring

Author:Sojourner Truth

About the Author

Died: November 26, 1883
Known for: Activist
Quotes: 46

Books & Sources

Narrative of Sojourner TruthRelated source material

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readingsRelated source material

Book of LifeRelated source material

Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time: With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from HerRelated source material

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Literary Touchstone ClassicRelated source material

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)Related source material

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