Fellow Athenian Law Persuasive Speech

Fellow Athenians, today I will share with you the reasons why we must enact a law to give citizenship to the metics of our great city and to the freed slaves worthy of the title! I will persuade you to cast your vote to help our worthy brethren become full members of our society. As a simple pottery maker myself, I sell my wares in The Agora. Some well-known and wealthy metic families have been there in my hours of need. Through the issuance of loans from these great families, I was able to expand my business interests over seas before the war with the Spartans and subsequent take over of the villainous Thirty Tyrants. My pottery will be seen around the world for years to come because of their friendship. This simply goes to show that these members of our community help to enhance our society and our city. These families and the families of other metics in Athens are loyal, kind, just, and worthy of citizenship. …show more content…
During the revolt against the vicious Thirty Tyrants many of the metics and freed slaves of our city came to our aide. Lysias provided our revolt with weapons and money to over throw those who had already killed almost fifteen hundred of our loyal citizens and stopped their crazed reign of terror in its tracks. Lysias and his brother, Polymarchus, in an act of bravery came to our aide in our time of greatest need. Unfortunately, Polymarchus was arrested by the evil tyrants and forced to ingest hemlock. This loss was a blow not only to Lysias but to myself as well. This is only one example of the bravery and justice shown by these members of our society who as of now can not hold office, own their own land, or call themselves citizens of the most amazing city in the world, Athens. Today we must rectify this wrong and fully induct these men into our city as full