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Since Grimke was prohibited from receiving formal education, she educated herself to become the orator she had always wanted to be. She also taught her personal slave to read even though it was against the law for her to do so. Grimke noted that fighting for abolition was as important as fighting for women's rights. "Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837)
This is a list of the major works of feminist women who have made considerable contributions to and shaped the rhetorical discourse about women. It is the table of contents of Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald and published by University of Pittsburgh Press (2001).
Hortensia (fl. 42 BC), daughter of consul and advocate Quintus Hortensius, earned renown during the late Roman Republic as a skilled orator. [1] She is best known for giving a speech in front of the members of the Second Triumvirate in 42 BC that resulted in the partial repeal of a tax on wealthy Roman women.
One example is speeches – some of the most inspiring talks in history have been spoken by female orators like Sojourner Truth, Oprah Winfrey and Susan B. Anthony.
women's rights activist, abolitionist John Neal: 1793 1876 United States: feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823–1876; first American women's rights lecturer [1] [2] John Brown: 1800 1859 United States: abolitionist, orator, martyr Angelina Grimké: 1805 1879 United States: advocate for abolition, woman's rights William Lloyd Garrison ...
1857–1888 women's rights, and temperance Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (October 28, 1842 – October 22, 1932) was an American orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights , Dickinson was the first woman to give a political address before the United States Congress .
Troye, a former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, first ran afoul of Trump World nearly two years ago, after she resigned over the administration’s ...
Called "the orator", [5] the "morning star," [6] and the "heart and soul" [7] of the women's rights movement, Stone influenced Susan B. Anthony to take up the cause of women's suffrage. [8] Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote that "Lucy Stone was the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question ."