Sojourner Truth

"I asked a plain question, and I expect a plain answer."

"I have outwitted the slaveholder because I was too cunning for him; have outwitted the railroad conductor—was too smart!"

"Behold the maker of the world has put into our hands the management of vast resources."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg; it is about what you are made of."

"I tell you I am mighty hard to kill."

"I ain't got nothing to do but go forward. I'm bound for the promised land."

"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can."

"I'm going to the Father on a cloud riding, if I make my peace with my God."

"Children ought to be taught the truth about their origins and their strength."

"I have never yet found that slavery agreed with my constitution."

"I know that I have the right to speak, and I will speak."

"The chains of slavery are heavy, but the chains of ignorance are heavier."

"Look here! I'm a woman, and women's got rights!"

"I come from the South, where the cotton grows, and I know the condition of my people."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"I am determined to speak plainly and truthfully."

"The Lord has given me a body that can work, so I will work."

"If the first woman God made was strong enough, then we can be, too."

"I have lived to see slavery abolished, and I intend to live to see women's rights established."

"Some people were born to lead, and others to follow; I was born to lead."

"I never expect to hear the day when the colored people have all rights they ought to have."

"The machinery of my life has all been regulated by the operations of the Holy Ghost."

"I was a weaver in the South, and I can weave here in the North too."

"Goodness alone is never sufficient; we must add strength."

"I stand upon the rock of my own convictions."

"All religions are founded on the principle that God is good."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being."

"I have overthrown the greatest power that ever opposed me."

"We are going to work ourselves up in the world."

"I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and I fear no evil."