Sojourner Truth

Here's another Lovable Dictator - Sojourner Truth. She spent the first 40 years of her life as a slave and more than 40 as an abolitionist, reformer, and feminist. She was a tireless chapion of equal rights and she possessed so much spirit and grace that she is positively an inspiration to me.

This is from one of her speeches;

Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring

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. I suppose I am kept here because something remains for me to do; I suppose I am yet to help to break the chain. I have done a great deal of work; as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay; so with the German women. They work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. 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.

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