The speech “ Women's Rights to the Suffrage” by Susan B. Anthony was to persuade AMerica that it is illegal to not let women vote. The speech is most compelling because she use allusion to show everyone that she is right. Susans B. Anthony’s diction about how she did nothing wrong was great, while showing she was using her rights. First, she brought up the Constitution to show her rights. “By the National Constitution.” (Anthony,1) Next, she states that she knows what she did and how legal it is. Third, she used a unique way of of explaining how what she did was not a crime, only a right. “Simply exercised my citizens rights.” (Anthony,1) Susan B. Anthony used diction to perfectly lier her speech up so the speech would manipulate
Anthony’s life, the United States did not recognize the voting rights of women. Although they were citizens of this country, they had no say as to what went on in the government. They had no true representation in government: an idea that the founding fathers of the United States of America had fought so hard for a mere one hundred years earlier. Anthony’s attempt to vote sparked the women’s rights movement to begin spreading the idea of women’s suffrage, which would soon become the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Anthony was arrested for her ballot, and she dealt with the legal consequences of her action. However, Anthony’s resistance to the law positively impacted society because it paved the way for the 19th amendment to be ultimately ratified in 1920: allowing the women in this nation the right to vote. Without Anthony, women today would not have the same legal rights that they do. Without Anthony, a strong woman would not have been able to win the popular vote of the nation in a presidential election. Due to Susan B. Anthony’s civil disobedience, maybe young girls and women in this country will someday soon be represented behind the desk in the oval
In 1872, Susan B Anthony delivered her Women’s Rights Speech, shortly after being arrested for illegally casting a vote in the presidential election. Speaking with a tone of anger and disgust in the way women are being treated, she yearns for them to acquire the same rights as everyone else. Her argument is composed by using several rhetorical devices such as allusion, repetition, and analogy to “prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’ rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.”
Anthony’s On Woman’s Right to Suffrage, she played a role in defying conformity because she decided to vote and to explain to everyone why she had every right to. Her response to not being allowed to vote was “ It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” During this period, only wealthy , white men could vote, not women or anyone of a different race. Susan B. Anthony decided that she was no longer going to accept that and voted . She sent a message to the centralized power- rich, white men that women are entitled to vote. By taking this step, she inspired many other women to take a stand, and, eventually, women gained the right to vote. If Susan B. Anthony had not taken this step;people still would have conformed to society’s norms, and it would be entirely possible that women still would not have been able to
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.
Susan B. Anthony born on 1820, Massachusetts, believed that all people should have equal rights. Susan’s speech given in 1873 after her arrest for voting, deliberately sets a stance to women's suffrage in a very serious tone. Susan fights for the equality treatments for women during that era. 1873 was the era where women had no equal rights as man did, women were seen with contempt. Frustrated from all the bias jurisdictions Susan stands up, advocating for the women's rights. In her speech, Susan uses combination of claim of policy, claim of value, rhetorical questions, and second-hand evidence to appeal her view to the congress, looking to end the suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony In a time where women were thought of to be slaves to men, it was very hard for women to find ways to become part of our great nation and for them to have the right to vote. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” This is a motto Susan B. Anthony used to influence people as she campaigned for women's rights. Not only did she fought for women's rights, but she helped bring the abolition of slavery.
Susan B. Anthony protested for suffrage of African Americans and she helped them achieve the Fourteenth Amendment for their right to vote. After seeing this Amendment pass, she thought that it should have extended to include all American citizens, so she voted in the 1872 election of Ulysses S. Grant illegally. Susan B. Anthony recited this speech to dozens of people around the country to persuade them that her vote should have been legal. She practiced reciting this speech to perfect it before she spoke it to persuade a jury. Unfortunately, the judge decided before the trail that Susan B. Anthony was guilty and did not allow her to speak at her own trial because she was a woman (National Susan B. Anthony House). This is one of her most powerful
Anthony agreed with Douglass and wanted to make a change. Anthony got arrested for voting in a election illegally but she does not stop fighting for her right to vote. Anthony’s verdict was guilty and she was fined $100, that she would never pay (Susan House). She started fighting for women's suffrage after she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies because she was a women (Susan Story). She started fighting for women’s rights when she met a women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and they fought for women’s rights (Harper). Anthony always fought for what she believed she would go around and give speeches, get people to sign petitions for women’s suffrage, anti-slavery, and married women’s property rights ( Abolitionist,
The Women's Suffrage movement began in 1848, but it would not be until November 13, 1913 that its most powerful speech, “Freedom or Death” by Emmeline Pankhurst, would be spoken, in Hartford, Connecticut. Pankhurst’s speech is powerful because it evokes strong amounts of pity at what suffragists were going through, while giving evidence that this pain can easily be changed.
Susan B. Anthony was the ultimate leader in the woman's suffrage movement. She was so famous because she was one of the first true women's rights activists. At her first woman's rights convention in 1852, she declared "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage." She then led several rallies and marches to encourage women's right to vote. On November 5th 1872, Anthony cast a vote in the Presidential election which she had previously registered to vote on November 1, 1872 at a local barbershop, along with her three sisters. Even though the inspectors refused her initial demand to register, Anthony used her power of persuasive speaking and her relationship with Judge Henry R. Selden to obtain her registration. However, she was arrested for her illegal action violating the voting law two weeks later.
In 19th century many women did not have rights to vote. Women had to do whatever their father or husband told them to do. Susan B. Anthony was the first american women who played an important role in women's suffrage movement. She also wrote a speech about women’s rights on voting. Her purpose of writing the speech was to change the laws. She used persuasive techniques ethos in her speech. She chose the constitution because it is the most absolute law of the United States. In 1972 Anthony’s speech inspired lots of women to stand for their rights, stand up for their educations and to change the laws.
Susan wanted to express her rights by voting when it was a “crime.” She wanted to prove her point that she was not the one doing the crime, as shown in the fourth paragraph of her speech which states, “therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.” She shows it is not only wrong not to let women vote but it is against the law. In the beginning of her speech, she used denotation to help her prove this point. An example of this would be, “simply exercised my citizen's right.” She used the word, exercised. Finally, in the third paragraph, Susan states, “It was we, the people, not we the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we the whole people, who formed the union.” This is an example of a hyperbole.
Anthony speech in 1873, She uses facts to back up her arugement and her main focus on her speech is to demonstrate how woman are not being treated the way it says in the United States Constitution. Apart from Truth, Anthony was another feminist activist who believed women should have the right to vote and be treated equally as men. However, when defending their stance on women rights both women use different methods to define what a women is. Anthony breaks down the key points that are written in the Constitution, she starts of by saying how this country was created by not just white male citizens but as well as woman who are white than she laters goes on to talk about the country is not a democracy but aristocracy. Anthony uses these very important ideas to show how the constitution contradicts what is written and women are not taken into consideration. Differently then Truth, she incorporates her experiences and what she has seen/heard about a women. She uses more of a sarcastic tone to justify why women are not any different than men. The speeches have something in common that is asked and that is What is a woman in the United States. Anthony and Truth both asked the same question to their audience but they themselves never give a direct
Ten years after the Gettysburg Address was given and the war was over a new issue came up, a very important issue that should have never been denied in the first place and that is women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony address the public after she had been fined for casting her vote in an election; her speech is simply titled “Woman’s Right to Vote.” The structure of both speeches is quite simple, they both start out by addressing everyone present, not leaving out a certain group nor solely addressing one, next they both refer to important documents of American law right in their opening versing; for Lincoln the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution for Anthony. Lincoln speaks in a chronological order and Anthony does a good job at this
There are several sources composed after Susan B. Anthony’s hearing that allow a conclusion to be drawn that Miss Anthony did not receive a fair trial. Some prime examples of this claim are numerous handwritten letters and diary entries, a newspaper article, a court transcript, and a petition to Congress. The first source employed throughout this essay is composed of numerous letters and diary entries written by Anthony herself that discuss the unlawful events