Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (c 1797-1883), born Isabella Baumfree, was an American abolitionist and women's suffragist. This African American former slave became an evangelist and changed name to Sojourner Truth. She escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Wisdom & Quotes

• (That little man in black says) woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from?... From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

- Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

• 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!

- Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

• The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

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• If woman want any rights more'n dey's got, why don't dey jes' take 'em, and not be talkin' about it?
• It is the mind that makes the body.
• Truth burns up error.

Mirza Ghalib