Sojourner Truth

"If we want rights, we must take them."

"I got religion, and as soon as I got religion, I had a great desire to go somewhere and do great works for God."

"The white people may bury us, but they cannot bury the truth."

"I am the only one that understands me."

"Well, I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all."

"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 feel assured I am the equal of any man living. The spirit is willing."

"I have heard the name of Jesus manifested and revealed in a bundle of rags."

"Keep evolving, and let no one stop you from reaching your goals."

"I don't want to ride in the back of anything; I want to drive my own destiny."

"The good Lord gave me a voice to speak my truth."

"I wasn't born to be silent about injustice."

"Forget not the poor, the destitute, the outcast, and the downtrodden."

"I have found that nothing is so much calculated to lead people to abandon themselves to despair as the finding of wealth."

"Go ahead and do something. You will get more respect than you would clamoring for rights."

"I am a woman's righter. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man."

"The Lord gave me a voice, and I am determined to make the most of it."

"I did not come here to make a fuss, I came to help the oppressed."

"Every seed of greatness must first be a seed of suffering."

"I know that I am among the last, but there is a great work yet to be done."

"Everybody's got an opinion, but truth stands alone."

"I planted myself like a seed and grew up from the earth."

"The cause of my people is the cause of mankind."

"I want to make the world better because I was here."

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."

"I am not ashamed of my past; it made me who I am."

"That man says women are too delicate for hard work, but I have done hard work all my life."

"The white folks and the colored folks all must work together to build a better nation."

"I was not born to stand still in the darkness."

"My people will be free; this I know for a certainty."