Sojourner Truth

"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?"

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."

"I feel safe; nothing can happen to me."

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place."

"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns."

"Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and no man could head me."

"I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man."

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society."

"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter."

"I believe in my soul that as far as education is concerned the things to do is to concentrate on fundamentals."

"I want to talk about the wrongs of the Indian too, those first Americans; some of the creatures that you don't call men."

"I have heard much about the condition of the Chinese women, but I know nothing from any knowledge of the women of China."

"Me and my children is not going to starve."

"I have come to tell the truth, as I have lived it."

"If I could not do great things, I could do small things in a great way."

"That's what I thought about all the time by myself—and when I come to this place and was received so kind, and find out how good people are, it made me think more and more."

"We do as much work as a man, but do not get the pay."

"When I have heard the name of Jesus mentioned with contempt and scorn, then my heart has felt indignation."

"I believe the power to make is in the people, always was, and always will be."

"I never expected to hear a woman in the pulpit before."

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again."

"I am more than a match for any man."

"I wish women to have their rights, and there is no one who can deny it."

"The flesh is subject to the law of God, and we must obey it or go naked."

"Go ahead. Don't go and ask your husband's leave. Be independent."

"I have tired myself out with hard work, as much as any man."

"I am a woman and a mother—and these are circumstances which make me interested in the welfare of my race."

"I think that 'tis a very pretty thing for us to talk about peace while we are in the midst of a war which was of our own making."

"I have heard much about the suffrage question, and I hope the day may come when we women may have our rights."

"Children, do you know you have an immortal soul?"