Humanities 112: Meeting of the Minds

Speeches are dreaded by many. The fear of public speaking is one that is engraved into most people’s brains at an early age. There are many great speeches known to man; the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” and the two that will be contrasted in this essay; Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I Woman” and Florence Kelley's speech on child labor and women's suffrage. Both of these speeches were given at women’s rights conventions, Truth’s in 1851 in Ohio and Kelley’s in 1905 in Philadelphia. Although the two speakers are opposites (Kelley being an educated white woman and Truth being a freed slave who often shows her illiteracy throughout her speech) they both depend on rhetorical questions, exemplification, repetition, pronoun

In the year of 1863 Susan and Elizabeth Cady organized a Women’s National Loyal League so Anthony and Stanton could support and petition for the thirteenth amendment outlawing slavery. She and Elizabeth went on to campaign for full citizenship for women and for people of any race, including the right to be able to vote, in the fourteenth and the fifteenth amendments. Susan and Stanton were very disappointed when they found out that women were excluded from this. So Susan continued to try and get equal rights for all American citizens, including the people who had been

In a speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Florence Kelly, women’s suffragist and child labor activist, uses an articulate and declamatory style to perpetuate her message of allowing women to vote, therefore freeing children all across America from their laborious shackles. Armed with a zealous tone, sharp diction, and gritty imagery, Kelly slays any opposition to her belief in equality across all genders. Not only do these devices gun down any argument against Kelly, but they also cause the opposition to rethink their morals, and whether or not a child working in factories is up to the ethical standards of the great United States.

“Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.” This quote by Susan B. Anthony, stated during the women’s suffrage movement, illustrates the hypocrisy women faced during the late 1800’s. Furthermore, it displays that women’s rights can be compared to that of an enslaved human being instead of a free United States citizen. Throughout American history gender inequality has been a prevalent, ongoing, concern. Sherna Berger Gluck’s novel, From Parlor to Prison, is a collection of stories from five American suffragists depicting their lives while working towards passing the 19th Amendment. Gluck transcribes the stories of Sylvie Thygeson, Jessie Haver Butler, Miriam Allen deFord, Laura Ellsworth Seiler, and Ernestine Hara Ketter and their unique contribution to history. Together these five women acted and contributed to changes the constitution and passing the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, which lead to more equality in the United States. This historical novel not only gives a sense of the movement, but of the working-, middle-, and upper-class women who were apart of it. In addition, the book gives insight to how difficult it was to stand for a cause one believed in. Furthermore, the people contributing to women’s right to vote were treated unjustly comitant to other radical changes in history. The women taking part in working towards passing the 19th Amendment faced oppression, similar to that that

Stanton emerged as a leading figure, arguing vehemently for suffrage disconnected from the issue of the abolition of slavery. Her husband was a star speaker on the abolitionist circuit but lukewarm on women's rights, worried that it would distract from the more urgent issue of ending slavery. Anthony, a Quaker, was severe and strict, charming, and arrogant. Stanton's sometimes racist positions in defense of women's rights

When we think of important women activists of the 19th century, we think of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, or others who took part in the fight for women’s suffrage. Lilly Martin Spencer was a silent participant. She used her art to express her thoughts and opinions on the current state of affairs. Although most women of middle-class of the 19th century relied on their husbands to support the household, Lilly had more modern views and became the “man of the household”. Her husband supported her lifestyle by taking on the domestic duties, and helping her with her work.

Speeches are dreaded by many. The fear of public speaking is one that is engraved into most people’s brains at an early age. There are many great speeches known to man; the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr 's “I Have a Dream” and the two that will be contrasted in this essay; Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I Woman” and Florence Kelley 's speech on child labor and women 's suffrage. Both of these speeches were given at women’s rights conventions, Truth’s in 1851 in Ohio and Kelley’s in 1905 in Philadelphia. Although the two speakers are opposites (Kelley being an educated white woman and Truth being a freed slave who often shows her illiteracy throughout her speech) they both depend on rhetorical questions, exemplification, repetition, and with these devices, their establishment of pathos to encourage and call their audience to action. While Florence Kelley’s speech does well, Sojourner Truth’s is more effective due to the fact that she pinpoints the enemy and draws her audience together with her word choice.

Susan B. Anthony is considered one of the most influential female characters in the history of the United States, mainly, for her leading role in ending discrimination against women. Moreover, Susan’s arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872 fueled her even more to fight for women’s rights until her last breath. As a result of this indictment, Susan gave her phenomenal speech on women’s right to vote, that did not only play a major role in ending discrimination against women, but also leaving its prints on the Constitution of the United States. Throughout her speech, Susan uses Aristotelian appeals, which are logos, ethos and pathos, to deliver her message in a dominant and impactful way, which successfully changed the minds of most, if not all, Americans who previously viewed women as inferior.

The self-described “caged lioness” finally found a vehicle for my philosophy in 1851, when I met the Massachusetts-born Quaker and reformer Susan B. Anthony. We women struck up a lifelong friendship, and the unmarried Anthony later traveled the country delivering speeches that I had composed in between bathing the kids and cooking meals. Anthony sometimes even babysat the kids brood to give me some time to work. I made a career out of pushing the envelope, but my ideas were occasionally too revolutionary even for the fellow activists. I caused a scandal by calling for more liberal divorce laws

Maya Angelou, the beloved author, poet, and activist once said, “a wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim” (Angelou). As one of the greatest role models for women, Angelou expressed these words that reflect the actions of Jane Addams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton during the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States. Jane Addams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived at the turn of the century where women were discriminated on based on gender and their inexistent role in society. These women refused to be taken for granted and in doing so they fought vehemently for a cause that they believed in. These pioneers of feminism paved the road for reform, changing the very fabric of society with their arguments for women’s suffrage in a way that few men have attempted in American history.

Susan B. Anthony inspired to fight for women’s right while camping against alcohol..along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton also an activist, Anthony and Stanton founded the NWSA . Which helped the two women to go around and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights.She also went on saying that if women ever wanted to get reaction men had…only thing stopping them,..having voting rights. An american social reformer and women’s right activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement, also a teacher who aggregate and compare about nature. She gave the “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage” giving outside the jail she was going to be held in, she gave this speech in person in 1873 and her audience were mostly white women that want virtues like men. Also men that wanted to put women in their place and friends of her and fellow citizens. Her main points are that women needed power that men had. Growing up in a quaker household she knew that women needed honor as men just like slaves experience getting their freedom. In Women’s right to suffrage Susan B. Anthony uses tone, reparation,and logos which dematices why women should have equal morality and voting abilities as men.

“Hi Michael, first of all thank you for having me. My career as a women’s suffragist began in 1852 when I went to my first women’s rights convention that was held in Syracuse. I wasn’t all too active in the movement until in 1866 another activist, Elizabeth Stanton, and I founded the American Equal Rights

Firstly, Susan Anthony lived at a time when women were being discriminated against both at the workplace and in politics. Despite these challenges, she managed to join politics and to address numerous issues affecting women. Her charismatic character enabled her to command attention as a leader. Some of the achievements she secured for women are still being enjoyed today not just in America but across the world. Her famous statement “failure is impossible” is a reminder of the possibilities she believed in and the mentality that enabled her to fight for women’s causes with zeal (Sherr 98).

This is a speech that can be classified as a political text. It has autobiographical overtones as the author is living in first person what she refers to in her words. This speech was delivered in Hartford (Connecticut) on November 13, 1913.

Women are often overlooked in history, partly because they were chained in social expectations and had limited rights. Throughout the history of the United States, many groups of people have faced discrimination far greater than the circumstances faced by most women. However, the struggles of these fair-skinned and African American women should not be portrayed as less than what they were. In 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, delivered her retirement speech, “The Solitude of Self” to the NAWSA convention. The speech eloquently articulated the need for equality for women and her philosophy of feminism.