How come everytime I try to cut myself I can't because I end up thinking about how my family will be sad and asking themselves what they could of done to help me or that they should of done different (even though it wouldn't have been their fault) when I would be dead?

Read the opening lines of sojourner truth's speech "ain't i a woman? " 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? what tone do these lines convey?