`` I Have A Dream, And Florence Kelley 's Speech On Child Labor And Women 's Suffrage

She draws in many facts such as statistics about children working, “two million children under the age of sixteen years...are earning their bread” and “No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls from fourteen to twenty years”. The facts are establishing her logos through the use of actual facts and not guessing or generalization. At this point in time, there were two million children working and most of them were young girls. She is starting out the essay by being honest and direct with her audience. Kelley later brings in examples and hypotheticals of children going to work “A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night. A little girl, on her thirteenth birthday, could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon, carrying her pail of midnight luncheon as happier people carry their midday luncheon, and could work in the mill from six at night until six in the morning, without violating any laws of the Commonwealth.” Many women in the audience have children around the ages of thirteen and can recall this when their children go to work. The mothers may also recall this scenario from when they were younger. Truth uses more figurative rather than direct statistics, such as “women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place

“Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851) is a speech written by women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth arguing that women are not being given the equal rights they deserve. Truth strives to open the audience’s eyes to the injustice women are experiencing in order to motivate people to act and help bring change about. She speaks to an audience of both men and women, using words like “children” and “honey” to establish a comforting, wise, and motherly tone. In her speech, Truth uses biblical allusions to appeal to ethos and adds a personal anecdote to appeal to pathos, effectively extending her reach to a diverse group of people and pushing them to identify with her struggles and experiences.

Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I a woman” speech had many things in common with Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Truth gave her speech to help people better understand why women need rights that are equal to men. She listened to what everyone had to say about women’s rights then when it was her time to speak she used everyone’s arguments and flipped them so that she could make the audience think. Truth used ethos, pathos, and logos when she gave her speech so that she could reach out to each audience member. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King wrote to the clergy men to help persuade the clergy men that African Americans deserved to be free. King also read what the clergy men had to say first then in he used their arguments and

Kelley questions the logical aspects of voting and how it would change child labor in lines 55-62. Women were not allowed to vote until 1920. She implies that if women were allowed to her vote, there would be better child labor laws. It seems logical that women should be allowed to vote, and if they were, certain laws and bills would not have been passed. Her use of logos helps emphasize her argument that together they can change child

In 1905, in the United States, some children as young as six years old are working in factories and women aren’t allowed to vote. Florence Kelley is a fiery and inspiring child labor activist and also a suffragette. On July 22, 1905, in Philadelphia, she gives a speech to the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to try to rally them to assist her in her main cause which is fixing the child labor system. In her speech where she doesn’t hold back, Kelley lets the audience know why the child labor system is atrocious and why they should get involved. She also tells them the steps that they should take to try to right these wrongs, in convincing their husbands to vote for child labor

On May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth gave her most famous speech at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. Truth, being born a slave and escaping to her freedom, was both a women’s rights activist and abolitionist. In a male-dominated society, Truth wanted to gain awareness for the inequalities of women and African Americans during the time period. She makes several claims how African Americans and women are not inferior to the white male population. By targeting those males, Truth portrays them as antagonists and thus gives the women and the African Americans something to focus their struggles on. Sojourner Truth attempts to persuade her audience to support the women’s rights movement and on subtler terms, to support the need for African

Through Truth’s numerous rhetorical questions used in this speech, she has made a strong impact on her audience. Each question either precedes or follows a strong truth. By questioning herself, and being able to answer each question, Truth shows her understanding of society, and the mistreatment of women. She never wanted the audience to answer her questions, because the honest answers should be obvious.All of her hardships as a slave, and she is a women. When discussing intellect, she even asks, “What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negroes rights?” Her rhetorical questions were a unique way of

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt not only stood her ground in front of the men representing this country, but the people of the country. Catt may not have the highest status among the men she addressed, but she did have a mature position in the fight for women’s rights. The women of this country, along with Catt, were in an uproar and wanted to have a say in the person that would soon be the one responsible for their national security. In her address to Congress, Catt employs the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos to create a convincing case for the civil rights for the women across America.

Sojourner Truth once remarked, in reply to an allusion to the late Horace Greeley, "You call him a self-made man; well, I am a self-made woman” (Gilbert, v). This quote digs deeper into the leadership of what Sojourner Truth’s journey was all about. Truth’s greatest commitments for women’s suffrage stood alongside of her remark to Greely. No woman was just to be a housewife or slave to her own family, but to be able to enjoy the world as man did. Sojourner Truth was an important figure in American History because she helped create a pathway for the ideas of feminism and the justices of racial equality.

Her speech contains simple words and sentence structure. In fact, the appearance is given that she doesn't even remember the word "intellect" in "Ain't I a Woman." Whereas Abigail Adams' letters are dotted with sentences that have the correct structure, Sojourner Truth's sentences are straightforward and folksy. Abigail Adams' letters are literary; Sojourner's conversational. What may be most remarkable, however, is that despite these quite marked differences in style, language and tone, both Abigail Adams and Sojourner Truth are similarly effective in persuading their audiences through the use of contrasting levels of language.

Sojourner Truth once declared, at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again” (“Sojourner Truth” Encyclopedia). This statement brought a wave of protest from the men in the crowd and left most women with renewed hope for receiving equal rights. Sojourner Truth was a woman’s rights activist and African American abolitionist, on top of being a freed slave. Sojourner Truth had the “worst of both worlds” being that she was African American, and also a woman. She spoke at a countless amount of conventions, largely inspired by Lucrietta Mott. Rather than using weapons, Truth

Sojourner Truth, the writer of An Account of an Experience with Discrimination and speaker of Ain’t I a Women and Speech at New York City Convention, faced many difficulties and oppressive times in her life. She went through several different owners and homes. When Truth got older, she had at least five kids, most of which were sold into slavery, with a slave named Thomas. Truth was granted freedom after the 1828 mandatory emancipation of slaves in New York and finally was emancipated. She began preaching on the streets about her religious life. Truth changed her name from Isabella Van Wagener to Sojourner Truth because she wanted to “sojourn” the land and tell God’s “truth.” She moved to Northampton, Massachusetts to become apart of the abolitionist movement. During this time, the Civil War was occurring. The North was opposed to slavery and the South was for slavery. Truth addressed women’s rights repeatedly. She pointed out that the meetings about women’s suffrage were racially segregated. Truth gave many public speeches throughout Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. Truth used an approach when giving speeches called rhetorical strategy. She was extremely opinionated and pointed out a good argument about slaves creating the country and receiving no credit for it. She also made a good point when talking about women’s rights: “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world

Sojourner was a deliverer for freedom, justice and equality and her “truth” is as inspiring today as it was nearly 150 years ago (McKissack, 1). The various rhetorical strategies used by Sojourner Truth help effectively deliver her message. She presented points that were unjust, morally wrong, showed racial discrimination and inequality for all and not just women. Getting to her audience’s emotions was easily done by using repetition, biblical situations, and private

The first time I heard “Ar'nt I a Woman?” was freshman year of high school, during our annual African-American Heritage assembly. The crowd, always restless and inattentive, chattered and snapchatted away as the speech and presenter were announced. A lanky girl shuffled on stage, folding in on herself as she walked, arrived center stage, and began to speak. As she went on, her spine straightened, her murmurs turned to phrases enunciated so clearly her tongue seemed to be working three times as hard as a normal person’s. By the end of the speech, she had the undivided attention of the audience, all holding their breath because of how passionately and honestly she presented this glimpse into life as a black woman. Both Chapter 4 of A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, and Sojourner Truth’s “Ar'nt I a Woman?” speech serve the same general goal: showcasing the mistreatment of African American Women by society . While Truth’s speech is from her perspective, full of rage and frustration, A Shining thread gives her experiences important context. .

The first reason we should use pieces of literature such as these in today’s classroom is that they can teach lessons. Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech can teach young women that they too