Women Deserve Voting Rights. Everyone has a voting right. In the address by Susan B. Anthony “It is a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” and the speech by Emmeline Pankhurst “Freedom or Death”, they are women suffragists who speak up and fight for women’s right to vote. They use parallel structures, ethos, and logos to make an effective attempt to ensure that women have a right to vote. Susan B. Anthony illustrates why women deserve the right to vote through the use of ethos. She writes, “Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws.” Anthony conveys that the government is based on every citizen being able …show more content…
She also notes that it is for every state, confirming every citizen has permission to use their rights. Moreover, Anthony mentions sources and morals of the United States to confirm women should be able to vote. Emmeline Pankhurst uses logos and parallel structures to support the claim that women should have voting rights. Pankhurst uses “I am...” in her speech to describe who she was and what she was fighting for. She conveys what she went through and why she went through it. She explains the differences between men and women. For instance, she states “If I were a man and I said to you, ‘I come from a country which professes to have representative institutions and yet denies me, a taxpayer, an inhabitant of the country, representative rights,’ you would at once understand that the human being, being a man, was justified in the adoption of revolutionary methods to get representative institutions.” She depicts how life as a man you would get more rights and freedom compared to life as a