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Truth Is Powerful.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth · 1853

Truth Is Powerful., Quorum

Sojourner Truth's line.

"Truth is powerful and it prevails." Sojourner Truth said it in 1853, and she said it with her own name as part of the argument. It is a statement of faith in a plain fact, that the truth, given time, wins.

Why she is in the lens.

The Movement lens is built on the civil-rights tradition, Douglass, Truth, Lincoln. Sojourner Truth belongs there as a matter of course, and this line is the most quotable thing she left.

How we set it.

Fraunces, "Powerful" in the wonky italic. The setting is editorial rather than declarative, the accent on the word that makes the claim.