Sojourner Truth

“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”

“Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.”

“It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.”

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

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

“It is the mind that makes the body.”

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

“The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.”

“If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.”