Sojouner Truth gave this speech at the Women's convention in Arkon Ohio that called out the unfairness and standards in regards to gender. Truth starts her speech by calling out that women are treated as if they cannot do things themselves, such as being helped into carriages or carried over mud-puddles. However, Truth explains that she, as a women, has ploughed fields and done many things that men could not have and yet she was still a women. She further explains the pain and grief she has suffered that no man could ever know and how men will never know how strong it is to battle through a women's hardships. Truth proves that women are capable at a great many things and should have the same rights as men. Truth takes it one step further by also pointing out that men believe a women should be helped but as a black women that is a slave she has never received help of any kind but yet she is still a women. Truth also points out that Christ came from a women as well and that women have incredible power and thus should be equal to men.Ruth Bader Ginsburg also fought hard that men and women should be equal in all areas of life whether it be jobs or home functions.
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