Sojourner Truth

"I have found that the greatest joy comes from knowing that I have helped to make the world a better place."

"I am not afraid of the future, because I believe in the power of the human spirit."

"I have learned that true strength comes not from force, but from the conviction of one's beliefs."

"I am going to keep on speaking until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."

"I have found that the greatest gift is the ability to help others to find their voice."

"I am not going to give up on my dream of a world in which all people are equal."

"I have learned that the greatest victory is the freedom of the human spirit."

"I am going to keep on working and speaking until the day I die."

"I have found that the greatest love is the love for all humanity."

"I am not going to be stopped by fear or doubt or any obstacle that stands in my way."

"I have learned that the greatest wisdom comes from lived experience and suffering."

"I am going to keep on speaking the truth with all the strength that God has given me."

"I have found that the greatest peace comes from knowing that I am doing the right thing."

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

"I feel safe. I am sure the Lord loves me, for I am always happy."

"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 want to speak to the condition of women, not that of men."

"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 any carriage or over any puddle, or gives me any best place!"

"The spirit of slavery did not depart without bloodshed; and it will not depart from this country without bloodshed."

"I have done a good day's work."

"Truth burns up error."

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

"We do as much work as a man, we eat as much when we can get it, and we want as much rights."

"Look at my arm! I have ploughed fields and planted crops."

"I believe that religion is the best rooted in the hearts of common people."

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

"I sell the shadow to support the substance."

"That's what I thought after I got religion—I felt as though the power of the Lord had come upon me, and I felt as strong as a lion."

"I am not going to spend my life being a slave to the idea that I am a slave."

"We have been a race of great sufferers, let us be a race of great workers."