Activist

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

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.

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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

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.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

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

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.