Trut Truth's Argument For Colored Women

In attempt to give slaves equal rights to the common American man, activists argued that “thay (they; slaves) have in Common with all other men a Natural and Unaliable (inalienable) Right to that freedom which the Grat Parent of the Unavers hath Bestowed equalley on all menkind and which they have Never forfuted by any Compact or agreement.” The slaves feel violated because they look just like the average white American citizen and are not given guaranteed rights that white citizens have.

“Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are humans rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard,” Hillary Clinton once spoke. Hillary Clinton was appointed to speak at the Women Plenary Session at the 4th United Nations World Conference in 1995. In her speech, Clinton speaks to shine a light on the unfair treatment and to educate on what rights women should have, as well as to strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take control of their own destinies. This powerful message is directed to the audience of various world leaders at the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session in Beijing, China. In her speech, “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights,” Hillary Clinton uses emotion to educate, persuade, and make the audience of world leaders feel something, known as pathos. She also repeats words and phrases to put an emphasis on certain injustices, which evokes the audience to want to make a change for women’s rights, making the speech effective.

The women’s right movement began in 1843 in Seneca Falls, New York, which sparked the revolution of women obtaining equal rights. In 1920, females are finally given a voice, however; African American women weren’t given suffrage until the 1970’s. One woman named Sojourner Truth stood up for all women for women’s rights with her famous speech “Ain’t I a woman?” told at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Truth argues that all girls’ specifically African American ladies should have the same rights as men since women can do the exact same thing stating she does the same work a man does and maybe even more since she was a slave at one point. The reason why Truth gets her message across is because she has credibility since she uses pathos by stating that 13 of her children are seized from her, ethos since she is a woman who once was a slave, logos by comparing the work an average white man does versus what the average African American woman do ,allusion by bringing Christ into the lecture stating that Christ came from God and a woman and that man has nothing to do with Christ since a woman gave birth to him, and juxtaposition by announcing that a man is contradicting himself on a statement he said. All

Over the years, the United States has made advancements towards a society in which gender no longer acts as a deciding factor in regards to societal and legal rights. The stance of women today differs greatly from the position they held 250 or even 50 years ago. Even though women have advanced via law reforms and changing social perspective, they still remain unrepresented and uninvolved in the law, which leads to a lack of overall equality in our legal system and society.

With the advancement of suffrage to equal pay, over the last century, women’s rights have progressed immensely. Through historic marches and demonstrations across the United States, women protested for their equal place in politics and social progress. Despite the fear-mongering components used in achieving these rights, women’s rights are still thoroughly debated within society today. Over the last century, incredible and unreachable goals have been fulfilled for women, such as the right to vote and a sense of equal state in the “Free World,” and can only improve in the years to come.

The American people have been fighting for equal rights since the beginning of the county, however until August 18, 1920, about half of the population was not allowed to vote. The women’s suffrage movement, however, had been going for a while before then in speeches like “Ain’t I a Woman” given by Sojourner Truth in 1851 at the Women 's Convention held in Akron, Ohio. Truth speaks about the ways that men treat women as “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.” as well as the hypocrisy of these sexist ideals since, “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain 't I a woman?” Truth’s speech demonstrates how the ways that women are treated are biased and seixst. Truth lived through slavery and fought for the rights of African Americans in the

She connects with the white women again because they are mothers except they have raised their own children. Truth calls out the man in the room again towards the end of her speech. This time, she references the birth of Jesus and the creation account. “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” This section of Truth’s speech is a slap in the face to men who think they their gender is superior to women. Women are strong. God didn’t need man to create Christ. Women are also strong minded enough to cause the fall of man so, they are strong enough to create order too. Altogether, Truth’s speech related to both women and African rights. She reinvigorated how important equal rights were for every human being.

Truth delivered this speech at a women’s rights conference as part of a lecture tour in 1851 (Michals). It seems that her purpose was to rally women behind the idea that black women deserve the

Truth utilizes a juxtaposition to call an action against gender inequality. After hearing that “women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.” from a clergyman who argued that women were too weak and helpless to be given the right to vote, Truth illustrates how she faces prejudice as a black person and as a woman in order to incite an emotional response in her audience by saying that “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me

Sojourner Truth asks the audience a rhetorical ethics question that pressures people to questioning themselves why women don’t have rights. It is ethically wrong to not fill up Truth’s figurative cup, and Truth exploits that problem. Sojourner used a simple, widely understandable question to prove her point so that everyone could grasp her argument. Sojourner has been treated ethically wrong her whole life, and this one question changed the thoughts and encouraged others to make a change with women’s rights.

Between the years of 1972 and 1982, women and other supporters were fighting one of many fights for the Equal Rights Amendment. “Women and supporters lobbied, marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, as well as, committed acts of civil disobedience.” One of the very first problems for advocacy was the significant difference of equality for men and women. In this time of history, the Constitution only granted rights to the individuals who had all the power of decision-making and influence: white males. Social traditions and ideas of common law were defined for women from an English influence. With English tradition as the biggest influence, many women were denied many legal rights. Some of these rights included: denied

This strengthens her claim that women deserve equal rights with men because she does not get special treatment for being a women. The author uses the rhetorical question “Ain’t I a women” to further her claim. Truth uses this

In a time period which covers the era that saw the first generation African-Americans come of age without any memory of being slaves to just shortly before American women could stand up alongside Soviet women and say they had the right of self-determination through the acquisition of suffrage, the history of colored women was one distinctly different from everyone else. If African-Americans could honestly and accurately be said to hold any particular type of freedom or even a particular right in the American society inhabited by the characters of Zora Neale Hurston’s, “Their Eyes were Watching God,” it might well be true to suggest that they had the right to decide which method of domination they preferred at the hands of their black husbands.

Truth states, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” (Truth). Another aspect of her opinion is, enslaved women are looked away upon their right to make a difference in the

When First Lady Hillary Clinton delivered her speech “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” at the United Nations 4th World Conference in 1995, she focused on giving voice to the inequality of women in countries around the world. Hoping to raise awareness about women’s rights Clinton says, “We are focusing world attention on issues that matter most in our lives -- the lives of women and their families.” She expands on the statement by helping the men identify with the women in their lives such as their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters. Hillary effectively persuades the audience of delegates, government officials, and people from around the world to identify with the need to empower, strengthen and support women in their lives. In this speech, Hillary uses ethos, logos, pathos, and repetition to successfully deliver a compelling argument for revolution.