Sojourner Truth

"The truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

"I ask no favors for my sex. I ask justice for my sex."

"I am building my house upon a rock that cannot be shaken."

"The spirit is willing, and the body is strong."

"I have been in every place where there was work to do, and I have done it."

"That is what I think about night and day."

"I am not a widow; I am a woman with a mission."

"I have outlived the slaveholder by outliving the system of slavery."

"The world has never yet seen a race of people who were willing to do justice to another."

"I plant my feet on the rock of God's word."

"I claim to have been a slave, and now I claim to be free."

"I never told a lie in my life."

"The spirit of slavery will never depart without struggle."

"I am a woman's righter as well as a colored woman."

"Whatever you want to learn, you must learn by working."

"I've got a right to the tree of life."

"I know that the Lord stands by me."

"I am determined that my voice shall be heard in this nation."

"I didn't get to be old by worrying about what people thought."

"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 as strong as a lion, therefore I am so."

"That little man in black there, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!"

"The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another."

"I have crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom."

"When I leave this world I expect to enter into the glory of my Father, but I don't believe in dwelling upon the future world so much as to neglect the present."

"Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home and lives where it is made welcome."

"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."

"We do as much work as a man, we eat as much when we can get it, we are as strong, some of us, but we do not have as many rights."