
this speach has been read by millions of people and speaks to so many deeply. i'd have to say its one of my favorites. i had to recite this about a year ago. and i almost cried as i finished it. We women today still go throough a great deal of drama. i see it first hand every day in my life with my mother. my mother has worked for her job for 10 years and has been married to her husban for seven years with 3 childern. she is the only responsible parent in the household, even though my step dad works around the house. i grew up in a broken household with all the arguements and drama. but i can not complain wen i imagine what other women have went through and still are going through. my mother is a strong individual and i pride her for that even thought sometimes i dont show it as much as i could. i didnt grow up in the best surrounding but i always had my mother nd my birth father there for me and not many people have that. i have heard so many stories from friends and what they have overcame and still overcomming. so i am glad for the life i live and people like Sojourner Truth have fought for the life i live. Free will and Respected. i thank her and all the women still fighting for what they want and dream.
Ain't I a Woman? Famous Speech by Sojourner Truth The Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio - December, 1851
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?From God and a woman!Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again!And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.