Susan B Anthony Analysis

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“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?” is a quote by Susan B. Anthony that left the entire country scrambling for the truth. Our rights as persons are supposed to mean that everybody be treated the same; but as a society we are failing to act on those promises. Suzan B. Anthony expressed a compelling speech persuading the people of the United States to change the way, at which women are being treated; due to the fact that we were all created equal. All this meaning, simply we need to hold everybody(men and women) to the same standards. Throughout the speech this idea was expressed by main points, women are obliged to be treated the same as men, as a country we need to work towards becoming a more perfect Union, and …show more content…

This was the thought that most people had in their minds during this time. Scared to shake things up, women just worked and worked and did what the men told them to do, until one women finally decided enough was enough and that women was Susan B. Anthony. Not afraid to speak her mind, “For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people is to pass a bill of attainder, or an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.”(Anthony, 5) Showing the whole world a women can be smart makes them rethink what they are doing to the women. To reinstate, “And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government--the ballot.”(Anthony, 3) In this speech a particular point of emphasis was on women’s rights the whole time and in doing this, she uses pace extremely well. To back this up, “Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no State has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.”(Anthony, 7) With this statement, Suzan used logos, which really backed up her claim(and mine) that women need to be treated the same as men. In that quote she pointed out by law women are persons, which is factual, and that all persons

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