Women's Right To Vote In Speech By Susan B. Anthony

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In 1873, Susan B. Anthony gave an infamous speech on women’s right to vote. She talks and gives examples of her being a citizen, and every citizen should have the right to vote. She’s trying to show people that her voting wasn’t a crime, in order to convince them that women should be able to vote along with men. She uses a very firm and disappointed tone throughout her speech, more to get her point across to the people she is talking to. Anthony gave this speech after being tried and fined for voting illegally in the presidential election of 1872. She believed this was wrong, so the purpose of her speech is to give examples as to why women should be able to vote if they are considered citizens. She is very firm in her belief that because