There is no use denying the fact that such issues as tolerance, humanism, and democracy are proclaimed to be the most important and valuable nowadays. People should act in a way that respects the peculiarities of culture and mentality of other men. However, it should be said that this recognition came after a great number of attempts to prove the idea that all people are equal and have the same rights. For decades depressed groups of the population have been struggling with society in order to prove their right to be taken as common people. Moreover, there were certain personalities whose contribution to the development of equality and tolerance could hardly be overestimated as their activity made the current stage of progress possible. Sojourner Truth is one of these personalities. To begin with, it should be said that Sojourner Truth is a famous African American abolitionist and womens rights activist (“Sojourner Truth” para. 1). She was born in a period when slavery was not abolished, and black people lived under horrible conditions. Being a slave since her childhood, Truth realized all difficulties of the life of a person deprived of any rights. She was sold many times, moreover, her masters humiliated and tortured her (Truth 24). She had no right for love, as the master of her beloved one was against their relations, moreover, her children did not belong to her as she was just a slave. However, after the famous decision to give freedom to slaves, she became free, though, very soon, she realized that it is just a formal step as segregation remained in the society of the USA. That is why she decided to fight against discrimination. It is obvious that her views on the problem were formed under the influence of her past. Realizing from the first hands that slaves do not have any rights and, moreover, that even free black people are taken as outcasts, Sojourner Truth wanted to improve their state and strive for the maintenance of the law, which guaranteed equal rights for slaves. Her first great achievement was the lawsuit connected with her son, who was illegally sold to another owner. Truth wanted to obtain justice and took the issue to court. After the process, which continued for a month, Truth was given her son back. The importance of this case could not be overestimated. It was the first time when a black person claimed the white one and won. Truth showed people that it was possible to struggle for their rights and that they should do it. Being sure that people should be persuaded to struggle for their rights, Truth joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, which main aim was promotion of pacifism, tolerance and womens rights, and started to travel around the country telling people about the possibility to become really free and obtain equality. However, it was not the only way in which Truth fought for the rights of people. In several years she joined George Thompson, who was a famous abolitionist and traveled with him, giving a great number of different lectures. Besides, she is also famous for her speech called Aint I a woman? Which was delivered at Ohio Womens Rights Convention in which she described the state and conditions under which