Sojourner Truth quotes

1797–1883 · Hurley, New York

I wa'n't goin' to keep nothin' of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And 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.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time ... with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (reprint of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl"), 1875 · p. 164
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Why, I felt so tall within—I felt as if the power of a nation was with me!
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, 1850 · p. 45
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Boston: Printed for the author (J. B. Yerrinton and Son), as told to Olive Gilbert
I have no money, but God has enough, or what's better! And I'll have my child again.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, 1850 · p. 45
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Boston: Printed for the author (J. B. Yerrinton and Son), as told to Olive Gilbert
No, I did not run away; I walked away by day-light, and all because you had promised me a year of my time.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, 1850 · p. 43
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Boston: Printed for the author (J. B. Yerrinton and Son), as told to Olive Gilbert