Sojourner Truth's support of the women's rights movement came through in her speech "Ain't I a Woman?" However, ths speech also highlights the larger volumes of injustices born by African American women within the movement. In the eyes of Truth, the white man holds the white woman to some level of respect. He helps her into carriages, lifts her over ditches, and ensures that she has "the best place everywhere." These courtesies do not extend to the African American woman, who toils endlessly in her master's fields and whose children are ripped from her arms. Equality is deserved in both regards: gender and race. In the spirit of the women's rights movement as a whole, Truth said that God came from a woman and that "man had nothing to do with Him." According to Truth, this reason alone must justify women's equality in the man's mind. She goes further and alludes to the Bible again. This time, she says that because Eve was able to "turn the world upside down all alone," a united front of women will certainly have the power to bring about women's equality. Truth calls for men to get out of their way.
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