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
ashes speak womens-rights
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
And ar'n't I a woman?
mother jesus children
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?
black-history black want
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
beautiful book reading
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
writing men rights
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.
years ice rights
I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
truth errors
Truth burns up error.
running daylight running-away
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
hearing sojourners birth
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
men giving justice
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
giving lord poor
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
racket
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter
names egypt giving
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.