Inaugural Address And Declaration Of Sentiments

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Rosa Park once said, “ Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and hopefully, we should overcome.” This illustrates how racism still exist but, it is up to the people to prepare their children to not become how society used to be. From 1619 to the 1960’s, women and African American people did not have the same rights as men or as white people did. Women were not able to make their own decisions and African American were slaves. Due to these circumstances, women and African Americans wanted to change the way they lived and the laws that made the decisions of the dilemmas. Therefore, all three articles - Second Inaugural Address, What to the slave is the Fourth of July? and Declaration of Sentiments - uses strong rhetorical appeal in their writing to contribute the effectiveness of their argument by conveying the equality everyone deserves. During the 1619, slavery was a society dilemma that affected not only the African Americans, but the way white people viewed them as if their lives did not matter. With slavery occuring at that time, the 16th president was …show more content…

In the document, “Declaration of Sentiments” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses rhetorical appeal to convince her audience about women having rights and how they should not be anybody’s property. A rhetorical appeal she uses the most is logos by portraying the first amendment in her document. She illustrates, “We insist that they have immediate admission to all rights and privileges, which belong to them as citizens of these United States”(pg. 297). This depicts that everyone, including women, should have the same rights as any citizen in the state. This implies to the first amendment by declaring how every person has freedom of speech, religion, of press, etc. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wants to persuade her audience that women have as much equal rights as men or any other person