Angelina Grimké, Catharine Beecher, and Sojourner Truth are three entirely different samples of the women's movement, although they lived at the same time. Their personal experience and the attached social environment form the base of their various views and shape their identically different views of the proper role women should play in society. On the other hand, Grimké was born into a slave-holding family and raised with the same values but also believed in equality based on moral personhood beyond the question of gender. Instead, it was the traditional capacity of an educator that Beecher was challenging rather than the status quo. The truth that came out of slavery and the private struggles she had gone through forcefully challenged the idea that women needed equal rights. The struggles of the two women is a multilayered look at…show more content… 2)". Further illustrating her point, Beecher argues, "Woman is to win everything by peace and love; by making herself so much respected, esteemed, and loved, that to yield to her opinions and to gratify her wishes will be the free-will offering of the heart." Beecher views women's power as a domestic force, not a threat to male dominance. Her approach demonstrates that women can make a difference, even if they do so in different ways than past reformers did. Sojourner Truth will use her life to strongly underpin the assertion of women's rights, more potent than anyone before her, and in the process, come down like a storm on racial and gender discrimination. She minced no words in the famous 1850 Women's Rights Convention speech: "Ain't I a Woman?". She says, "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, lifted over ditches and have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, over mud puddles, or gives me the best place! And ain't I a
