Sojourner Truth: [That little man...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

REFORMERS > abolitionist, reformer > Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth: [That little man...

Vendor: REFORMERS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

[That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man has nothing to do with him.

Source: Referring to a clergyman in the audience at a Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851.
-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18 1797?-1883), US abolitionist, reformer; She was a freed slave and noted orator who advocated emancipation and women's rights.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA