Sojourner Truth Quotes

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. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

Sojourner Truth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: 1797 - November 26, 1883

Topics

TruthTravelPeopleMeNameDown

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

ManSupportStatisticsRatherThan

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

Jeff Flake

CourageMeBudgetDoingYouBack

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

Trip Adler

EasyFindWantMoreContentWeb

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

Russell Smith

FatherTimeEarlyPlaceStudent

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Ry Cooder

PeopleCareSaidDoneAbilityFail

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I've gotten to know her, and I think she's made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

Michelle Obama

LifeWomanThinkKnowSheOver

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

PeaceFightWarPeopleUnderstand

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

Jason Blum

WorkMoviesTakeLowStickShots

I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.

Sean Faris

GirlBeautifulShoppingGoWantWho

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

Ryan Gosling

GirlRomanticThinkI CanEatMeal

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

ReligionImpossibleMoralityWithout

I love using drama and humour.

Morten Tyldum

LoveDramaHumourI LoveUsing

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