Sojourner Truth Powerful Quotes

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. ~ Sojourner Truth

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. ~ Sojourner Truth

And ar'n't I a woman? ~ Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body. ~ Sojourner Truth

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway ~ Sojourner Truth

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ~ Sojourner Truth

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

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that. ~ Sojourner Truth

Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray, ~ Sojourner Truth

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? ~ Sojourner Truth

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must. ~ Sojourner Truth

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. ~ Sojourner Truth

We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here. ~ Sojourner Truth

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. ~ Sojourner Truth

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. ~ Sojourner Truth

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another. ~ Sojourner Truth

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. ~ Sojourner Truth

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. ~ Sojourner Truth

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. ~ Sojourner Truth

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. ~ Sojourner Truth

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people. ~ Sojourner Truth

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? ~ Sojourner Truth

Then 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 Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. ~ Sojourner Truth

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable. ~ 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. ~ Sojourner Truth

Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other? ~ 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. ~ Sojourner Truth

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. ~ Paul Harding

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. ~ Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. ~ Nancy Gibbs

When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who don't want to hear it. ~ Anne F. Rockwell

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix. ~ Gail Collins

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction. ~ J.G. Holland

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed. ~ Mike Murdock

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. ~ Dan Brown

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. ~ Mira Nair

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth. ~ Joyce Meyer

It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. ~ Ethel Waters

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. ~ George R R Martin

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood. ~ Ralph Cudworth

All the heroes of black emancipation - from the black abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, to the woman who organized the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, to the leader whose actions finally destroyed American slavery, Abraham Lincoln - were Republicans. It is of the utmost importance to progressive propagandists to conceal or at least ignore this essential historical truth. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. ~ John Carmack

In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it. ~ Joe Sacco

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. ~ Veronica Roth

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip. ~ Elizabeth George

There's nothing more powerful in "Your Moment of Truth" than people owning their truth, their part in a situation. ~ Lou Bergholz

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. ~ Sarah Silverman

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally. ~ Robi Ludwig

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be. ~ Ralph Marston

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The only thing more powerful than words
- is the Author who chooses them. ~ K.A. Gunn

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating ... I mean, dreadful. ~ Alison Jackson

The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric) ~ Shannon A. Thompson

Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time. ~ Nell Irvin Painter

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Being powerful is not contingent upon worldly possessions. Being powerful is not arrogance. Being powerful is a state of mind. ~ Naide P Obiang

Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds. ~ Alex Haditaghi

Oh love! Is there anything more abundant and more powerful than you? ~ Debasish Mridha

Growing up is not easy for anyone but for anyone to deliberately block the path of the child from their family, it is nothing short of a sin." Lowering her voice a little she quietly said, "I believe she has done us all an injustice." The smile that she gave Melanie lit up her entire face as she patted the scrapbook. "Please look over the book and call me anytime. I don't sleep much and I will be here for you. ~ Sojourner McConnell

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is. ~ Chris Prentiss

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths. ~ Douglas Hofstadter

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. ~ Jim George

Sojourner [Truth]'s life exemplifies the process that occurs within ourselves as we grow to understand that we hold the authority to shape our own lives. This inner authority came when she embraced all of herself, which enabled her to speak from an authentic voice. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt

Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important. ~ Dinty W. Moore

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change. ~ Ivan Krastev

It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit. ~ J.I. Packer

There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous? ~ Gautama Buddha

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. ~ Tryon Edwards

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. ~ Sunday Adelaja

You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. ~ Ally Carter

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God. ~ Chris Oyakhilome

The powerful can make the truth dance to their song. ~ J.Y. Yang

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. ~ Marilynne Robinson

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking. ~ Elizabeth George

Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful. ~ Christian Finnegan

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. ~ Daniel Webster

You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ~ Anonymous

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission. ~ Beyonce Knowles

But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. ~ Orson Scott Card

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. ~ Joseph Stalin

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you. ~ Catherine Malandrino

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO. ~ Dave Ramsey

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated. ~ Zendaya

God is all-loving, all-knowing and everywhere, and we possess those qualities. We are actually extremely powerful beings, yet we seem to fear being powerful so we hold ourselves back. However, in truth, we are one with God and each other. The belief that we are separated from God and other people is just that: a belief. ~ Doreen Virtue

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'. ~ Idries Shah

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. ~ Anna Wintour

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that. ~ Susan Estrich

A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving. ~ Frederick Lenz

Sing, that's the most powerful weapon you have. ~ Gerard Way

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. ~ Jane Frances De Chantal

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do. ~ Kamal Ravikant