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This was a partial quote. It was the beginning of a women's rights speech she gave in 1951. The speech is called, "Ain't I a Woman?" The begining of the speech went:

"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?"

Sojourner was explaining that many of the white men of the time did not see women or blacks as equals. They felt women needed to be helped into carraiges and over mud puddles, but as a woman, she had plowed fields and gathered crops.

There were more to women than many men of the time believed, and they were pushing for rights. She was saying that as women and blacks started gaining rights, it was going to turn against everything these men believed.

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