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“I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.”
As reported by Frances W. Titus · Narrative of Sojourner Truth, with her “Book of Life” (Battle Creek, 1878), p. 141
Context Invited by Josephine Griffing to speak in Angola, Indiana, where a new law barred Black people from the state, she had been arrested and was urged by friends to carry a weapon.
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