I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
God is the great house that holds all his children; we dwell in Him as the fishes dwell in the seas. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
“You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway” — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
I am free when I allow my life to unfold. As soon as I restrict myself to new outcomes, I've got shackles on my… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share
