Sojourner Truth

"It is the mind that makes the body."

"I wanted to taste the life for myself when I got my liberty, for I had been the slave of slaves."

"I have heard the whistling of the wind through the trees, and I take it as a language of the Divine."

"I wanted to tell of the hope that burns within the hearts of those who have been bound."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances."

"Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns. No man could head me then."

"I am a woman's rights person, but I want to continue on with my work as an agent of the Anti-Slavery Society as well."

"I feel that I have the strength of a man within the soul of a woman."

"My God! I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!"

"I never heard of any women wanting to vote or to hold office. I only heard it argued that women did not have the right to vote or hold office."

"I believe that God has made me capable of doing most anything that I undertake."

"I have more machinery in the back shed than any man in this place, and I know it."

"I wanted to ride in the front of the omnibus because I am a woman, and have a right to a good seat."

"That man over there say that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches. Nobody helps me any."

"I feel as though I am very great in this cause, and I do not think I have ever been mistaken."

"I am not wrong. My work speaks for itself."

"The night is dark, and I am far from home. Lead thou me on."

"I have been in the field when the sun was very hot, and I have borne the lash upon my back."

"I wanted people to know that women were not the weak creatures they supposed us to be."

"Whatever the Lord has made us to do, let us do it well."

"I have never known what fear is. I was always the fearless one among my people."

"There is great power in the women of this nation; they need only to understand and use it."

"I am a mover and a shaker. I do not sit still while injustice reigns."

"The cause of my people is the cause of the whole human race."

"I have worked in the fields like any man, and I have borne burdens like any man."

"I do not believe that God made me to be a slave, and I will fight until every chain is broken."

"I have the strength of the Divine within me, and no man can take that away."

"The women of this nation are its moral compass, and we must speak our truth."

"I am a woman, and I am a worker, and I am as good as any man on this earth."

"I have traveled this land preaching the gospel of freedom and equality."