Sojourner Truth

"I was sold off when I was a small girl not to be reclaimed by my mother."

"I am pleading with the American people to deal justly with those people who have been held as slaves."

"I feel at home in my Father's house."

"I have received very kind letters from several kinds of people in the world, both colored and white."

"I have a right to have just as good a time as anybody."

"When I heard that colored people had sent out a resolution in favor of the government, I thought I would come and say a word on the subject."

"I depend upon the Lord for strength to accomplish all I have to do."

"The man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches."

"I have heard that the Spiritualists say that all nature is God."

"I have never heard anybody in all my life before speak the words I have been hearing."

"I believed with all my heart that the day would come when I would be heard."

"I say these people are not the enemies of this nation; they are the friends of it."

"I have heard that the colored people in this country have sent out a vote."

"I would not have my child brought up in this way for all the world."

"I want to tell about my trials and sufferings."

"Those people over there say women should be helped everywhere; I want rights!"

"I am a woman speaking to a woman about women's work."

"I have heard that all the Spiritualists believe God is everything."

"I never want to give a lecture again."

"I ask no favors for my sex; I want only that they should be permitted to work."

"I want to say a few words about the government and the colored people."

"I have been told that I was born in the state of Ulster County, in the year 1797."

"I have seen so much hardship and have been so active in the cause of liberty."

"I never knew what it was to rest easy until I came here."

"I feel strength in my soul and wisdom too."

"I cannot read or write, but I can talk."

"I do what I can do in my small way."

"I tell you I feel at home when surrounded by the friends of human rights."

"I don't want to interrupt you while you are in such good spirits."

"I feel I have been a keen observer of the times in which I have lived."