“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have just as much as a man. There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

The victory in the Civil War led to emancipation and freedom for the slaves. This meant that they would be set free from all legal, social, and political restrictions just like the whites. In short, this means blacks have the same rights and equality as the whites regardless of gender, race, or color right? Not so fast. Sojourner Truth spoke out in a meeting of the American Equal Rights Association in 1867 to advocate granting suffrage to black women immediately. She claims that the equal rights movement had led to black men achieving new and more rights than black women, which extended suffrage to black men. She uses this as motivation to help award hardworking, and deserving black women, just like herself, more rights. She thinks black men get more attention than black women  and therefore black men winning new rights. This clearly shows black men have more power and control in society than black women. It will be just as bad as slavery because black men will be the head of the household and have control over black women with their newly awarded powers and rights. If they don’t speak out or make an example, nothing will change and it will keep going downhill from there. Black women deserve their rights just as much as black men. Women’s suffrage is a necessity and a requirement in society.