Sojourner Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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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…
— Sojourner Truth
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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.
— Myles Munroe
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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
— Sojourner Truth
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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…
— Ethel Waters
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I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in…
— Frederick Douglass
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Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From…
— William Wordsworth
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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…
— Stephen King
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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
— Annie Dillard
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
— Nancy Gibbs
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton,…
— Gail Collins
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Hear my prayer, o Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee,…
— Bible
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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Sojourner Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Sojourner Quotes as follows: