Sojourner Truth first states that with so much racket there must be something wrong, and she guesses it must have to do with the African Americans in the south and the women in the north talking about their rights. She says that men are always saying women need to be treated with good manners, but she is never treated with any of it. And isn't she a woman, she asks, and tells about the hard work she has been forced to do and only receiving punishment, but isn't she a woman?
She asks what intellect has to do with giving anyone rights; that even if someone else may be smarter, wouldn't it be mean for them to not let those less fortunate have what they were given? She goes on to say that those who justify women not having rights purely because Jesus was a man is crazy, because Jesus came from a woman and God. "Man had nothing to do with Him."
She closes by saying that if the first woman God created, Eve, was enough to turn the world upside down, the combined strength of the women now should be able to turn it right side up again, and the men had better let them.
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