[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 59 (Wednesday, April 22, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING SOJOURNER TRUTH

  (Mr. SCHAUER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCHAUER. Mr. Speaker, first, I rise to thank Representative 
Jackson-Lee for her leadership of her resolution today in honoring 
Sojourner Truth.
  As the Congressman representing Battle Creek, Michigan, I rise on 
behalf of a community that is proud of its citizen Sojourner Truth, who 
lived her last 26 years there.
  My hometown was home to a pilgrim born into slavery, unable to read 
or write, who traveled the country, eloquently confronting the 
injustices of slavery and the unequal treatment of women. She spoke 
truth to power, and she changed the world. Her life is testimony to the 
endurance of the human spirit.
  Every day that I come to work at my office, I sit across from a 
portrait of Sojourner Truth, which hangs on my wall. It lifts me and it 
grounds me, and I know that the memorial in Emancipation Hall, along 
with a monument at her resting place in Battle Creek, will do the same 
for the millions of citizens who will view them over the years to come.

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