Alice Walker reads Sojourner Truth

Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) Novemeber 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California.

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[clevawoman]

some of ya'll are spending too much time on deliver and not much on content. who cares who delivered the speech best. It was powerful nonetheless

[bluehippofish]

@gaelgeseomra i call bullshit. for one, class did play a role in getting passengers off of the titanic: there was a higher percentage of 1st class survivors than any other class, including, of course, men. look it up. you know why women were given preference in getting off the titanic? because men relegated them to being caretakers. they generally had to take care of the children who also got off. and men have fewer rights than women nowadays? don't blame the victim, blame the oppressor.

[MissSuicidalCupcake]

@gaelgeseomra How exactly did that happen? I'm a woman, I came from my mother. My mother came out of HER mother, my father came out of HIS mother. My mothers mother came out of her mother, my mothers father came out of his mother.

At no point has a man ever given birth to a baby. Everyone came from women.

I just love how you assume that one, I'm a feminist, two, I've had abortions, and three, I want to be anything like your mother. If she reared a child like you she should feel very ashamed.

[gaelgeseomra]

@MissSuicidalCupcake And let me remind you every woman came from a man ,ohh so were geting violent now always the response from man haters when there questioned on there feminist man hating idiology oh and by the way man hater you will never be the lady my mother is with your abortions and smashing of families or the patriarchy,you can't stick to subject with out been foul mouthed and violent,whats wrong does the truth hurt you so much.

[MissSuicidalCupcake]

@gaelgeseomra LOLOLOLOL.

Let me just remind you that every man on this earth came from a woman.

You tire me, mr.Troll. It's clear you just want some attention, didn't your mummy love you? Is that why you hate women so much? Did mommy never tell you that you were special? Or did she realise you were worthless from the start?

Awwahh, poor little you.

Good luck growing up little boy, honestly, I hope you get beaten to death with a woman's pair of stilleto shoes .

[gaelgeseomra]

@MissSuicidalCupcake well there you go again on hate ie man hater and all of your kind when faced with the truth ,feminist women like you with your idiology would fall apart withpout the man hate,ignorant usless women like you dont know anything else or to blame only men for your inadequate lives,one thing I do like about feminisim is we men dont have to protect and provide useless toxic man hating sewer women like you.Get over it man hater, men built the world.

[MissSuicidalCupcake]

@gaelgeseomra Wow really?

You know, it's only on the internet where you can meet people as ignorant and stupid as you. If you think I'm a man hater because I acknowledge women's oppression, then by your backwards logic I must also be a white hater because I realise oppression of ethnicities, a German hater because I acknowledge the oppression of Jewish in the war. When in reality, the only thing I hate is people like you. I actually feel quite sorry for you.

[gaelgeseomra]

@MissSuicidalCupcake Women were never opressed,the fact that everthing was invented and built by men dosent make women opressed so stop seeing mens superiority in achievements as womens opression,you are a MAN HATER its easy to know by your filthy language,feminism is sexisim with deep roots in comunism,get over it cupcakes.

[MissSuicidalCupcake]

@gaelgeseomra So the fact that throughout history, women were regarded as property, women were savagely beaten, women were regarded as second class citizens, women got raped within marriage (that was only made illegal in 1991), women were not allowed to work, women couldn't vote, women were sexually harassed at work when they WERE allowed jobs, women didn't earn as much.

All of these things, and yes I understand things have changed, and you STILL claim oppression never happened? Wow. Dumbass.

[MissSuicidalCupcake]

@gaelgeseomra I never said I was a man hater, I don't hate men at all, I never have. I just think it's incredibly ignorant to say that women have never been oppressed, or talking about "the oppression lie". It shows clear lack of any regard for other people and makes you look like an ignorant idiot who is totally clueless, and saying "let me guess you're a feminist"...just because someone makes a point on a feminist video, does not make them a feminist. Grow the fuck up.

[gaelgeseomra]

@bluehippofish women were never relegated to caretaker and if they were they wouldent of put up with it and all the ruling queens through the ages wouldent of either,men never had the option of being house husbands,,stop playing the victim,men sacrificed their lives for women ,women have NEVER sacrificed their lives for men,rich woman poor woman they got first place on the boats men dident have the choice,in memory of the men who died for women stop with the marxist feminist man hating bullshit.

[gaelgeseomra]

@MissSuicidalCupcake Whats wrong man hater,you stuck for things to say so all you can do is use foul language ,poor little opressed cupcakes.