Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner TruthBaumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth18 November 1787
CountryUnited States of America
powerful enemy safe
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
truth powerful black
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
sister brother stars
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
beautiful glasses different
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.
spirit call-me
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
names egypt giving
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
running daylight running-away
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
talking rights african-american
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
racket
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter
beautiful book reading
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
black-history black want
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
years ice rights
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.
truth errors
Truth burns up error.
ashes speak womens-rights
Then I will speak upon the ashes.