“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 life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.”
– Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth: “‘Life is a hard battle anyway…'” source: portrait taken in 1864 – National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.78.207).
