"You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs... Justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." — Frances E. W. Harper, "We Are All Bound Up Together," 1866
Harper's speech most directly challenged:
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White suffragists who prioritized women's rights without addressing racial injustice
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Republican Congressmen drafting the Fourteenth Amendment
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Frederick Douglass's support for the Fifteenth Amendment
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Andrew Johnson's vetoes of Reconstruction legislation
Explanation
Harper, speaking at the 1866 Eleventh Women's Rights Convention, criticized white suffragists for ignoring how race shaped Black women's experience and for treating "rights" as abstract from racial justice.