Examples Of Persuasive Speech For Greek Independence

Greek War of Independence Persuasive Speech Hello, friends! Thank you for gathering. I - a member of the Filiki Eteria - have assembled you here to inform you about a future revolution. The Filiki Eteria is an organization, and our main purpose is to overthrow the Ottomans for the Independence of Greece. I have been part of this organization for over six years since it had been founded, and for six years, we have waited for the right time. Now is that ‘right time’ we have so patiently been waiting for. We have the support of the ‘Great Power’ – Russia - , and now all we need is every one of you to stand with us. We have had to tolerate the barbarians who have stolen, mocked, and taken advantage of us for almost four hundred years! It is time we become an independent country! Now is the time for us – Greece – to gain independence. Join us – the Filiki Eteria – in fighting those savages who think they can rule us for as long as they please! In the spring of 1705, an Ottoman official came
We might as well be their animals, who only eat and drink what their masters provide, carry around their master’s belongings, and the worst, killed when beneficial for their masters. Like animals, we are tied and chained – enslaved and never free. All non-Muslims are forced to pay the unreasonably heavy taxes, which provide the Ottomans with more equipment, more resources to control all the countries that they have dominated. The Ottomans think they can force us do whatever they order. They do not believe that we have the power to push back; they have gone far beyond our limits. Furthermore, the Ottomans in four hundred years have failed to bring any improvement to Greece and have brought nothing of value with them. They have tainted our history with this tyranny, without any good to cover it up. When we are independent, we will be able to fix the mess they have created; we shall prosper and flourish,