Sojourner Truth

"I want to inspire others to fight for justice and equality."

"I believe that God is on the side of the oppressed."

"I will not be silent while injustice continues."

"I have faith that the day of freedom will come for all people."

"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 within you."

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

"I am a woman's rights."

"Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?"

"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have ploughed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and all without one cry of exhaustion or fainting spell."

"I am outraged at the perpetuation of woman-slavery."

"Well, I'll tell you, it all depends on how we've been raised. I was raised to work; that's all I've ever known since I was a child."

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

"I wanted to rest, to lay down my weary limbs, but I could not, for my soul was troubled."

"I am not going to be yoked with anybody, for I'm going to go with the Lord."

"We do as much work as men, and ought to have as much pay."

"Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns."

"People are putting their feet on my neck, and I am going to have them off, or die."

"I feel as strong as the day I was born."

"I have a right to have just as much as anybody."

"The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob each other."

"I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored woman."

"I am about as near to a slave as any one that was ever born in the State of New York."

"For it is not women that need rights, but mankind."

"I have wrought in the day - you in the night."

"You have the same rights to the tree of liberty that any body else has."

"I am a stranger in your land, and I have no right to say anything about anything."

"I feel this spirit that tells me I am as capable as any man."

"I want women to have their rights, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool."