LAD #17: Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" Speech

Sojourner Truth's famous speech in Akron, Ohio rotates around the injustice that despite womens' frequent proof that they are equal and just as capable as men, they are denied the same rights.  Contrary to the infamous stereotypes, "Nobody ever helps [her] into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives [her] any best place! And ain't [she] a woman?"  She expresses to the listeners that she plows and works in the field, just like a man, and eats as much but she's still a woman.  Everything that she does in her life is equal. or greater, to that of a man, and she's still a woman.  Later, she questions that despite their lack of intelligence, what does intellect have to do with womens' 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?"  She lastly reasons with the beliefs of Christianity and the belief that Christ was a man -- not a woman.  Yet he must have came from a woman.  She voices that men have been, and will always be, nothing without women -- so why can't they be equal.