Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing
physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners
with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth
became a national symbol for strong black women--indeed, for all strong
women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a
radical of immense and enduring influence; yet, unlike them, what is
remembered of her consists more of myth than of personality. She was a
complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend. Inspired by
religion, Truth transformed herself from a domestic servant named Isabella
into an itinerant pentecostal preacher; her words of empowerment have
inspired black women and poor people the world over to this day. As an
abolitionist and a feminist, Truth defied the notion that slaves were male
and women were white, expounding a fact that still bears repeating: among
blacks there are women; among women, there are blacks.
"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 that they are asking to do it,
the men better let them."
Sojouner Truth
המציאות הנו מקרי בהחלט. אין צוות האתר ו/או
הנהלת האתר אחראים לנזק, אבדן, אי נוחות, עגמת
נפש וכיו''ב תוצאות, ישירות או עקיפות, שייגרמו
לך או לכל צד שלישי בשל מסרים שיפורסמו
ביצירות, שהנם באחריות היוצר בלבד.