Women works hard providing for their family and should be treated equally just like men. Women could not vote and do everything that men do. The speech “AIN’T I A Woman” is a good speech by sojourner truth. This speech is good because Sojourner Truth spoke to the Women’s Convention about her experiences and griefs as not only a woman in that day’s society but as a black woman. Sojourner truth wrote the speech at the women’s convention that would have memories for its roughness, truthfulness, and powerful message. This speech has is good because shows how sojourner is strong and establishes she as a victim of discrimination and how she faces prejudices as a black person and as a woman, it shows her emotions, reasoning, and imagery in the speech that tells how the author felt when she wrote the speech. In the speech truth had a lot of emotions that explains why women should not be treated …show more content…
She also wants other women to understand where she is coming from, and want everything to be equal like men. She also wants to get her point out about how men thinks its ok that women should be treated the way that they are being treated. According to the speech truth also says [ “the little man in the black there, he says woman cannot have as much rights as a man, because Christ wasn’t a woman”.] (truth) In the speech it seems that sojourner is mad and she will do whatever it takes for women to have equal rights. From reading the speech it seems that truth is getting upset trying to convince other people why they should have equal rights. It also shows that she is frustrated of trying to get her point out and nobody trying to help her make that happen. “obliged to you for hearing me, and how old sojourner does not have nothing more to say!” it shows that she will get her point out to the world no matter what anyone has to say or do not like
Sojourner Truth’s Truths Even the most subtle variations in transcriptions of the same speech can make a big difference. Sojourner Truth was a former slave, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist. In 1851 at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth gave a speech. Her speech, Ain’t I a Woman was meant to persuade society that women of color and white men are the same.
Has someone ever proved you wrong on your first impression of him or her? Imagine that small kid in the back of class that never spoke a whisper, you would never imagine that he or she would speak on all of the things they observed in their silence. That is what sojourner truth did with the speech she recited at the women’s right convention in 1851. Truth did not just write down her feelings and thoughts on a pad without planning or coordination. Truth lied this speech out with rhetorical devices to create multiple effects effect on the audience using pathos, ethos, allusions, etc.
She begins, “Mr. President, I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States senator. I speak as an American” (Smith 621). She exudes pride in her gender to both address and dismiss common prejudice regarding the issue.
This quote shows realism. It’s successful in this way also. It brings the overall speech to life. Another quote that brings ethos out in this speech is “I speak here as a woman of color who is not bent upon destruction, but upon survival.” It gives a sense of relatability to women of color.
Did you know, that the Civil War happened because of slavery not state’s rights, most Americans believe that. The Civil war happened in the years 1862 through 1865, and it was when the Northern and Southern States fought over slavery. What started the war was the Thirteenth Amendment which was passed to end all slavery,and it divided the country and into two, the states or people of America were either Confederate or part of the Union. The Confederates fought for keeping slaves since they needed them to work for free so they gained money and they didn’t need to pay them while the Union fought to free slaves since one of the nation’s principles was freedom and they wanted all to be free. Most importantly, back in those days, Americans thought
This was one of the major counter arguments used against slavery and for women’s rights. Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a woman” speech became very popular in the women’s rights movement, but it wasn’t the original speech which was published by Marius Robinson in 1851 as well as another version in 1863 by Frances Gage which changed the words to represent a stereotypical southern black slave accent. In the original speech at the Akron, Ohio woman’s rights convention, Sojourner Truth brought up religion and how even though those believe Eve caused men to sin which in their point of view makes women below men, Jesus came into the world from God and a woman, not a man. She states, “I can’t read, but I can hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin.”
Sojourner Truth was a very powerful and independent woman of her time. She got others to join her in the movement for women 's rights. Also, she wanted to prove to the world that women were equal and deserved the same rights as men. “...but men doing no more, got twice as much pay…” (Truth). She was tired of men believing
The author of this speech is talking to many different people. But the main people she is talking to are her fellow woman species of people. She is trying to make the woman able to vote. She also speaks to the africans
People remember this has a great speech because what she represents in this speech is hope, gratefulness, and guidance. Also the rhetorical devices she uses makes the speech that much more personal. Her use of an apostrophe or using an imaginary person was a great addition to the speech. She stats “ where after all do universal human rights begin? In a small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world of the individual person; the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends”(adoption).
The speech identifies the struggles African Americans faced due to discrimination, hence allowing readers insight into African American lives. The speech is inspirational and powerful due to the speaker exhibiting to the audience his anger regarding
Clinton attempts to use propaganda, empathy, and logic to present her point, that women to her audience, and succeeds at it. Overall, the speech is balanced in its argument style and use of rhetoric, such as the factors mentioned above. At this point, Clinton was not a New York senator yet, but only First Lady, yet she used her position to go to conferences, such as this conference, and speak out for women’s rights, as they are the same as human
To persuade the thought of a fresh civilization, Sojourner Truth's applies repetition of the rhetorical question "Ain't I a woman? " This proposal jabs at men's cruel demeanor and strengthens the call to action for women. The orator recites this question multiple times to forge an influential stance and to stress her message that women are as capable as men. In response, the advocated crowd reflects on Truth's demand and displays a call to action against the prejudice society.
Sojourner Truth, a runaway slave, became an influential figure in both women’s societies and the abolitionist movement. In her famous speech, “Ain’t I a women?”, Truth argues that she is more oppressed as a woman than as a slave (Doc 7). While she campaigned publicly for women’s civil rights, others attempted to reform society from within their religious
The objective of this speech was to expose the flaws of the government to the nation and to promote equality for all. Little’s demand for justice (along with other infamous human rights activists) was heard and the civil rights movement was put into action. Due to this influential speech and many others with the same goal, all Americans, no matter how diverse, are all equal and deserve the same rights as anyone
With the use of the repetitive phrase “ain’t I a woman” growing more urgent as she systematically breaks down the argument against woman’s rights, along with the way she draws on the emotional and Biblical aspects of the audience, Truth manages to create a clear and persuasive argument. As she challenges the double standard and tears holes in the logic of the male supremacist argument, Truth creates an unforgettable speech that changes the course of the women’s rights meeting on that day in Akron,