Quotes About The Sojourner

#1. 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

#2. I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Frederick Douglass

#3. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Nancy Gibbs

#4. Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter

Sojourner Truth

#5. 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

#6. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

Annie Dillard

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

Sojourner Truth

#8. 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

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

Anonymous

#10. 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

#11. You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Stephen King

#12. 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