Characte Sojourner Truth Essay

It’s my junior year of high school and I’m distraught as it is 1 am and my mom is packing her clothes and leaving. After a fight with my dad my mom made the decision to move back to her parents until she could figure out what she would do next. For me this meant she was divorcing him. She was divorcing the family. After countless calls to my grandmother 's house and no answer from them or my mom I gave up. That was it my mother left the family and now we were three. A couple weeks went by and finally she returned. Apologetic and missing her family my mom moved back in. In the past marriage has been looked at from the man 's perspective, he is in charge, and the women should submit. Might doesn’t make right anymore, women do. No matter the race women have been below the man. It’s like a pyramid at the top is white men, than white women, black men, and lastly black women. As John Stuart Mill said “All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of …show more content…
She was tough like a man with self confidence and the will to stand out. Although she wasn’t the most educated (most black women weren’t) Truth knew that the way women were living wasn’t the right way. She said “ I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man.” (Truth 113). Women like Truth have dusted off those cobwebs I have previously mentioned. Women like Truth are neither black nor white, they are simply women. We shouldn’t have to do what a man says. I know I am as smart as most men, although I can’t lift as much as them doesn’t mean I won’t mentally out lift them. Sojourner Truth was right women can do as much work as the man, eat as much, and if they were allowed or had a chance be as smart (Truth 113). Truth wouldn’t submit in marriage just like my mother doesn’t. Through time women have realized that they can be smart, they can have rights, and they be better than