Quotes from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of 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, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“After turning it in her mind for some time, she came to the conclusion, that she had been taking part in a great drama, which was, in itself, but one great system of robbery and wrong. 'Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.' True, she had not received labor from others, and stinted their pay, as she felt had been practised against her; but she had taken their work from them, which was their only means to get money, and was the same to them in the end. For instance–a gentleman where she lived would give her a dollar to hire a poor man to clear the new-fallen snow from the steps and side-walks. She would arise early, and perform the labor herself, putting the money into her own pocket. A poor man would come along, saying she ought to have let him have the job; he was poor, and needed the pay for his family. She would harden her heart against him, and answer–'I am poor too, and I need it for mine.' But, in her retrospection, she thought of all the misery she might have been adding to, in her selfish grasping, and it troubled her conscience sorely; and this insensibility to the claims of human brotherhood, and the wants of the destitute and wretched poor, she now saw, as she never had done before, to be unfeeling, selfish and wicked.”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“he was soon drawn into a circle of associates who did not improve either his habits or his morals.”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“absurdity of the claims so arrogantly set up by the masters, over beings designed by God to be as free as kings; and at the perfect stupidity of the slave, in admitting for one moment the validity of these claims.”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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