Very much like the Declaration of Sentiments, Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech is calling for women's rights as well as telling reasons for why they should have them.
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech Summary: She starts of by commenting on the fact that since there is all this racket, something must be wrong. All the blacks in the south and the Women in the North, are talking about their rights and the white men will have to do something about it soon. She then says that what is there to talk about? Men are saying that women should be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. No one ever helps her in this way. She then says "and ain't I a woman?". She has done a lot of physical labor and no man has helped her. She then repeats the same line again. She said that she had birthed thirteen children and seen most of them sold off to slavery, and when she cried out with grief nobody but Jesus heard her, she then repeats the line again. She then says that the reason people say women and blacks don't have rights is intellect. She then comes back and asks why it has to do with their rights. She then explains what some people say for reasons why women can't have the same rights as men is because Christ wasn't a woman. She then comes backs to say that is the first woman that God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, than why can't all these women together turn it back and get it right side up again. She finishes by saying that since the women are asking for these rights, the men better let them get them.
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