"Honey, I jes' walked round an' round in a dream. Jesus loved me! I knew it - I felt it. Jesus was my Jesus. Jesus wou…"

"But then there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud,- 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de whit…"

""I am pleading for my people, a poor downtrodden race Who dwell in freedom's boasted land with no abiding place I am …"

"Sisters, I ain't clear what you're after. If women want any rights more than they're got, why don't they just take th…"

"Well, children, when there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes …"

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best p…"

"That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! W…"

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, the women together ought …"

"Sojourner combined in herself the two most hated elements of humanity. She was black and she was a woman, and all the…"

"At Battle Creek, between a housing project dedication at which I spoke and a meeting with local Democratic officials,…"