Sorry Kelv, this should have been yours, but i could resist: Sojourner Truth, what a woman, what a stand and what an activist. A great example for us all.

I have always been attracted to people who make powerful stands and made significant contributions to their cause, and she is an epitome of that archetype. She stood tall, as a Negro woman, in the midst of slavery and the abolition movement to fight for Women's Rights.


My favourite quote of hers might sum up her character: Powerful and passionately beautiful.

"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."

But I think, to understand fully the struggle at that time, i share with you her famous speech.


That man over there say
 a woman needs to be helped into carriages
and lifted over ditches
and to have the best place everywhere.
Nobody ever helped me into carriages
or over mud puddles
or gives me a best place. . .

And ain't I a woman?
Look at me
Look at my arm!
I have plowed and planted
and gathered into barns
and no man could head me. . .
And ain't I a woman?
I could work as much
and eat as much as a man--
when I could get to it--
and bear the lash as well
and ain't I a woman?
I have born 13 children
and seen most all sold into slavery
and when I cried out a mother's grief
none but Jesus heard me. . .
and ain't I a woman?
that little man in black there say
a woman can't have as much rights as a man
cause Christ wasn't a woman
Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman!
Man had nothing to do with him!
If the first woman God ever made
was strong enough to turn the world
upside down, all alone
together women ought to be able to turn it
rightside up again.

Women like her are rare but are around. They are just not recognized and broadcast as icons of change and hope. So i feel we need more women leaders to help balance and give us the gift of nurturing and compassionate love in instilling harmonious change in today's monomaniacal society.

Think about it.



“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”
~ Sojourner Truth