Sojourner Truth Quotes
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.
Citations
Truth, Sojourner, and Olive Gilbert. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Printed for the Author, 1850, p. 81.
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Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, 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.