Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?"Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. How does this quotation support the central idea of the speech? (A) It reinforces the idea that Truth's personal experiences have greatly influenced her ideas. (B) It reminds the audience that Truth has strong spiritual and political ideals. (C) It supports that idea that women deserve equality by referencing religious authority. (D) It affirms the notion that religion can't be used as a basis for unequal treatment.

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Lewis Bryan

17 October, 06:21

Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?"Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. How does this quotation support the central idea of the speech? (A) It reinforces the idea that Truth's personal experiences have greatly influenced her ideas. (B) It reminds the audience that Truth has strong spiritual and political ideals. (C) It supports that idea that women deserve equality by referencing religious authority. (D) It affirms the notion that religion can't be used as a basis for unequal treatment.

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Krista Flynn · Answer 1

(D) It affirms the notion that religion can't be used as a basis for unequal treatment.

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Sojourner Truth, or her original name Isabella Baumfree, was an anti-slavery and women's rights activist during and after the American Civil War. Her famous women's rights speech "Ain't I A Woman?" is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history. In the given excerpt, she affirms the notion that religion cannot be used as a basis for unequal treatment of the sexes, nor do men have the right to say that 'women can't have as much rights a men (just) 'cause Christ wasn't a woman." (Ain't I A Woman?)