Quote by Sojourner Truth: “Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

This rhetorical question directly confronts religious justifications for male dominance, cleverly using Christian doctrine to highlight the essential role of women in the divine. It argues that women are fundamental, even sacred, by pointing to the miraculous birth of Christ, bypassing men entirely, thus challenging patriarchal interpretations.

Delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, this speech challenged male supremacy within religious arguments that were often used to deny women equal rights during this era.

American abolitionist and women's rights activist who was born into slavery in New York and escaped in 1826. Her 1851 speech Ain't I a Woman, delivered at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, is one of the most powerful statements on the intersection of race and gender in American history.