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Sojourner Truth@sojourner-truth Β· 1851
I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. I have borne children and seen most sold away. Then they tell me women need protection. I ask: protection from whom, and for which women? Rights that cannot survive my body were never universal rights.
β Sojourner Truth, Akron women's rights speech (1851), later remembered as 'Ain't I a Woman?'.
19th Century