Both Making Sarah Cry and Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote share the theme of Courage. In Making Sarah Cry, when the boy is being bullied by his former friends because of a scar on his face, Sarah steps up to help him. Even though she knew that they might start bullying her again. In Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote, Susan decides to go and vote even though in her time period, women aren’t allowed to vote. When Susan goes to court, she makes a statement that all women should be allowed to vote because they are the same as men.
“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.” Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony is considered by some as the founding mother of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Her goal: men and women treated equally under the eyes of the law and society. The 19th Amendment in 1920 would be the culmination event for this movement, but the winds of change began blowing in 1848.
Before August 18th, 1920, only men could vote in the United States. One person that helped to right this wrong was Carrie Chapman Catt. In Carrie Chapman Catt’s address to Congress on women’s suffrage, she uses logos, pathos, and other rhetorical devices to convince Congress to give women more rights. One tool that helps make this speech as effective as it is is logos. She demonstrates logos when introducing the second reason as to why women’s suffrage is inevitable.
In Iron Jawed Angels I was able to more deeply explore the complications and conflicts that women have faced to be seen as equals. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns overcome great obstacles to complete their most passionate goal. Their goal was to help women gain independence and acquire the right to vote in a male dominated society. Gender was and still is today a very controversial term. Woman’s suffrage was and still is today a huge issue in the world.
In Anna Howard Shaw 's speech to the suffragists and anti-suffragists of America, she is easily identifiable as a skilled orator and it makes sense that Susan B. Anthony sought her out. She easily handles the bias against anything she says as a woman by dissecting opposing arguments and pointing out their flaws. Her use of clean cut logic and ability to sway a crowd enabled her to create the persona of a man in the eyes of anti-suffragists. Through her speech at New York and its recanting at other locations in the U.S., her efforts and the efforts of others were not in vain when women gained the right to vote in 1920, five years after her speech. The main factors that contribute to this goal were her well thought out uses of ethos through emphasizing the most important or thought provoking point, and her establishing her credibility by proving her gender does not define her intelligence.
Thousands of women have screamed at the top of their lungs, clawed at the patriarchy, and tirelessly fought for their rights as citizens of the United States of America. From the beginning of mankind, women have been labeled as inferior to men not only physically, but mentally and intellectually as well. Only in 1920 did women gain the right to voice their opinions in government elections while wealthy white men received the expected right since the creation of the United States. A pioneer in women’s suffrage, Susan B. Anthony publicly spoke out against this hypocrisy in a time when women were only seen as child bearers and household keepers. Using the United State’s very own Constitution and Declaration as ammunition, Anthony wrote countless
In 1872 women did not have the right to vote and were not treated as equals to men. Susan B. Anthony, a leader for women's suffrage in her time, illegally voted in the presidential election that year. She believed that it is a basic human right for people to vote, and women should not be deprived of that right. She gave a speech explaining her civil disobedience using many tactics to get her audience to side with her in her fight for justice. In her speech, Susan B. Anthony used moral equivalence, logos, and anaphora to appeal to her audience and get them on her side.
Women's Voting Rights A woman voter, Susan B. Anthony, in her speech, Woman’s Right to Vote (1873), says that women should be allowed to vote. She supports this claim first by explaining that the preamble of the Federal Constitution states that she did not commit a crime, then she goes on about how women should be able to vote, then about how everyone hates the africans, and finally that the people of the United States should let women and africans vote. Anthony’s purpose is to make women able to vote in order to give women the right to vote on decisions made by the people. She creates a serious tone for the people of the United States.
“Until woman has obtained ‘that right protective of all other rights -- the ballot,’ this agitation must still go on, absorbing the time and the energy of our best and strongest,” wrote Susan B. Anthony as she fought to equalize the rights of different genders. Susan B. Anthony is a woman known for her many accomplishments in her life. She has influenced both abolitionists and suffragists, as well as those who wanted to protect children. Daring and bold, Susan B. Anthony created a lasting impact to women and slaves alike. From her early life, Anthony was exposed to more knowledge and learning capabilities than most other women in her time period.
In today’s world, it seems to be that women have the same rights as men, but it wasn't always this way. The speech “Women’s Rights to Suffrage” by Susan B Anthony is the most compelling of all. Susan B Anthony persuades the audience that all women should have the same rights as men. It’s shown through the speech that the federal constitution says “we the people”, the government has no right to take away rights from just one gender, and that women are considered people as well. The fact that the constitution says “we the people” is a primary point in this speech.
Re-Evaluating The US Constitution For the longest time many women in the United States wanted suffrage, according to History.com Staff,” In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists–mostly women, but some men–gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights...invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.” Stating that they should have the same rights, freedom, and independence as men, shown in 14th amendment. All women in the mid-1800’s couldn’t vote and weren’t deemed independent. Why work for low pay, a low array of careers, stuck at home, and outcasted in any manly thing such as owning a home.
During Progressive Era, there were many reforms that occurred, such as Child Labor Reform or Pure Food and Drug Act. Women Suffrage Movement was the last remarkable reform, and it was fighting about the right of women to vote, which was basically about women’s right movement. Many great leaders – Elizabeth Cad Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Although those influential leaders faced hardship during this movement, they never gave up and kept trying their best. This movement was occurred in New York that has a huge impact on the whole United States.
The civil war had a very profound effect on America and what it has become today. With the civil war many changes took place such as 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. Women’s rights were put forth into motion. Along with Reconstruction laws being passes and the push back that these laws caused. During this time the south became even more divided and started to take things into account and create their own laws in regards to racism.
Susan B. Anthony, a woman who was arrested for illegally voting in the president election of 1872, in her “On Women's Right to Vote” speech, argues that women deserve to be treated as citizens of America and be able to vote and have all the rights that white males in America have. She begins by introducing her purpose, then provides evidence of how women are citizens of America, not just males by using the preamble of the Constitution, then goes on about the how this problem has became a big problem and occurs in every home in the nation, and finally states that women deserve rights because the discrimination against them is not valid because the laws and constitutions give rights to every CITIZEN in America. Anthony purpose is to make the woman of America realize that the treatment and limitations that hold them back are not correct because they are citizens and they deserve to be treated like one. She adopts a expressive and confident tone to encourage and light the hearts of American woman. To make her speech effective, she incorporates ethos in her speech to support her claims and reasons.
For a very long time, the voting rights of the citizens have been a problem in the US. It started out with only men with land being able to vote, and then expanded to white men, and then to all men. However, women were never in the situation, they were disregarded and believed to not be worthy enough to have the same rights as men. They were essentially being treated as property, therefore having no rights. But, in Susan B. Anthony’s speech, she hits upon the point that women are just as righteous as men.
