Sojourner Truth
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"Sojourner Truth" was an African-American Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York/Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Sojourner Truth was named "Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree" when she was born. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the American Civil War/Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the Federal government of the United States/federal government for former slaves.

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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.

That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Truth burns up error.

It is the mind that makes the body.

[That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man has nothing to do with him.

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

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Religion without humanity is poor human stuff.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool.