Sojourner comes out swinging…and she basically keeps delivering KO after KO throughout the whole boxing match—er—speech.

Here's how she enters the ring:

"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?" (1-3)

In those three sentences, she lays out what, who, and why she decided to stand up and speak. The very first thing she says is that there's definitely attention being called to the cause, with so much yakking and fuss being made over the unfair state of things. This was both slyly funny, poking fun at the long-winded and ranting speeches that came before, and complimentary in that suffragists were finally making headway in being acknowledged.

She moves on to state that if women and Black men work together, they can end slavery and discrimination. This was a boost to offset the heckling the earlier speakers endured from some of the men in the audience.

Her final sentence simply opens the floor to her argument and lets her give direct responses to the points made earlier in the day. This is Sojourner verbally taping her hands, putting in her mouth guard, and getting read to slip on her gloves.