Protection or Slavery?

That man over there said that [a] woman needs to be lifted over ditches and
to have the best place every where. Nobody ever helped me into carriages, or
over mud puddles, or [gave] me any best place and aren't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns and no man
could head me - and aren't I a woman?

I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it, and bear the lash as well - and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard - and aren't I a woman?

- Sojourner Truth

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Much injustice towards women, children, and minorities are done in the name of protection.

Is protection just a veil for slavery?

If women are so weak, why do we often end up doing so much more than the men in our lives?
Think about it.