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 crad….

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again..

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, an….

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 co….

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

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There i….

It is the mind that makes the body..

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?….

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? W….

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail..

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my lif….

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 ….

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff..

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men..

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to ….

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins ….

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit..

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

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..

Truth is powerful and it prevails..

What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord..