Sojourner Truth Essay, Research Paper

If one ever been called a nigger or looked down upon when entering a room knows

the pain of discrimination. The hard reality that faces the women of the north

and the Negroes of the South today is the same. The northern women have been

fighting for the right to vote while the Negroes have been fighting for their

freedom. The white men are supposed to more powerful and much smarter than Negro

women but then why aren?t they given the rights to prove themselves? Many men

argue that men are more powerful than women are. They say that women should be

treated with the care and delicateness of a fragile glass figurine. Many slaves

in the south, men and women, work under the hot burning sun for endless hours

plucking cotton from the thorny branches of the cotton trees that has often cut

me. The sweat that often blinded my vision before the afternoon hit also

provided me comfort my arms. My arms tell the story of the hardship that many of

my fellow Negroes had to endure at the hands of the white man. The life of

servitude that I been born in was no dream of mine. Neither do I which the same

for my children who?ve been also sold off before they reached the age of

thirteen. The plight we endure each day can only be compared to the one endured

several centuries ago of the Jews. I know Jesus understands what my people and I

am going through. I pray to God and ask him for the same type of wisdom afforded

to his children. Men are naturally given all the rights, but they abuse it to

make our life a living hell. It goes beyond my comprehension to know that this

union of ours which only survives under the care of God. In the Bible, it

states, ?Treat one another as you would like to be treated?. We are all

children of God and therefore have to abide by his rules. It says that we need

to have compassion for the weak and to give charity to those in need. So why do

these men who run this country and claim to be God?s people withhold our

rights. Men answer these questions with ? Jesus was a woman?. But my reply

to that is then who gave birth to Jesus? Mary, a woman that labored through

excruciating pain to give birth to our savior. Whom did he die for? All of us,

and not just for the men. Eve is said to have caused the God?s children to be

doomed to death, because she was tricked Adam to eating the forbidden fruit. If

a women was a powerful enough to do that then why are they not letting us prove

that we can fix the world. It has been said that nothing is more cared for than

for something that was touched by women. When we protest for our rights they

better listen or we?ll make them listen!