The speech, “On Women’s Right to Vote” delivered on 1873 by Susan B. Anthony, addressed the partisan policy women faced in the United States. Before August 18, 1920, women were denied the right to vote or participate in politics; consequently, Susan B. Anthony was arrested after she voted in the presidential election of 1872. As a result, Anthony was fined one hundred dollars, due to inflation that would be nearly two thousand dollars in the contemporary day, but she refused to pay the fine. Anthony claimed she was immaculate and deserved the right to vote, as she explains in her speech. The exhortation made by Susan B. Anthony embodied exceedingly evident validation. Additionally, she adequately attributed variety of techniques and tones in her short yet powerful address. The speech persuades the audience to acquiesce with the orator by providing bold proof and evoking intense emotions. …show more content…
Anthony utilized concrete evidence to support her claim, and she supported her speech with a persuasive and a fervent tone. For instance, in the second paragraph Anthony cited the Federal Constitution to support that “we the people” implies everyone, not just white males. The tone of Anthony’s speech was extremely outraged, especially in the statement “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.” Similarly, Susan B. Anthony perfected her speech by using other well-built evidences that support her cause. For example, she explained that the Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier define a citizen as “a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office.” This particular evidence delineates that if women were citizens, according to that that the government claimed they were, then they would be able to vote. The final evidence Anthony uses intended to pose a thought provoking question that made the listeners agree with the
He incorporated several aspects of supposed differences in the sexes to prove that women could not vote justly and soundly. In his opinion, to attempt to justify or go against this natural fact would be trying to organize a reform against nature. Bushnell began his argument by identifying societal and cultural norms he thought everyone could agree
She uses the words, "to the whole people- as well as women" (Anthony 3) and asking the question, "Are women persons?" (Anthony 5) Since all people are considered citizens, then women should be given the right to vote. Anthony further exemplifies the country is not a, "republic" (Anthony 4), but "an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe" (Anthony 4). Men had been posed with the feeling that they are in too much control and pose as tyrannical rulers over women. They see women as inferior and do not think much of them other than the fact that their purpose is to serve under
In a case that generated national controversy, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the presidential election of 1872. The judge directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. When he asked Anthony, who had not been permitted to speak during the trial, if she had anything to say, she responded with what one historian has called "the most famous speech in the history of the agitation for woman suffrage".[99] She called "this high-handed outrage upon my citizen 's rights", saying, "... you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.
Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist who fought for the right to vote for women. Anthony had several reasons for why a woman should not be deny the right to vote. Some of them being that women are also humans and as humans the constitution secures their rights and those rights could not be taken away. First, when they denied women’s right to vote it implied that they were not humans like every other man.
Susan B. Anthony felt that “ everyone deserved to have equal rights racially, within gender, and even educational equality” (Salam). Anthony played a tremendous role in the Women's Activist Movement, which meant that she devoted her life to working on getting women the right to vote and feel equal. Anthony began her journey to get the 19th amendment ratified in 1852. Anthony organized rallies to help get her point across that everyone should be treated the same. Susan B. Anthony was a woman who set the pathway for women’s rights activist and for a big change in society and around the world even to this day.
She further explains how unfair these laws and regulations are and the little freedom women actually have. The men would not let the women take part in the government nor will they put her in the position where she is higher than a
In Susan B. Anthony’s speech, she talks about how women deserve to have equal rights and have the right to vote. In the speech, Anthony says
The author, a 19th century women’ rights leader, intends to justify her voting act was not a crime but rather an act based on her constitutional rights and further claims that since all women are also people, all women should not be discriminated because of their gender: just like how negroes should not be segregated because of their skin color. In order to effectively and strongly build her argument, the writer, Susan Anthony uses various writing techniques: use of emotional and deep-seated terminologies to describe the unfair intolerance; analogies with the ‘negroes’ engage the readers; repetition of phrases to emphasize her statement. First of all, the use of the narrator’s sentimental words and phrases enhances her argument’s verity and
Anthony, she speaks on the right to be able to vote in a presidential election. Her speech is about her right as a citizen to vote. In 1872 women did not have the right to vote, yet, she illegally voted in the presidential election. Ms. Anthony appealed the introduction to the U.S. Constitution, where she argues the start of it, “We, the people”, and not just male citizens. She verbalizes that, “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.
The article Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote! and the play The Watsons Go to Birmingham share the common theme of being different. For example, in The Watsons Go to Birmingham, they are not allowed to sit up front in a movie theater. In Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote she is voting illegally because of her gender. These themes are shown differently in each text because in Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote!
She used that logical reasoning to convince Congress and her audience. Throughout the speech, it is believed that Catt uses a thoughtful but defensive
Many speeches were given to help them gain their right. Susan B. Anthony gave speeches so that it would help them gain the support they needed for their journey. She did this to prove to women that they were not going to be taken seriously unless they prove that they can, which was getting that right for them. In 1872 Susan started doing things by herself. She went to vote illegally for the presidential election
To urge the arrogant politicians to pass the women’s suffrage amendment to the Constitution, Chapman Catt not only induces fear and culpability in them, but the language she employs also establishes herself as a credible individual by aligning with respected figures and emulating the politicians’ style of speech. Chapman Catt establishes herself as a credible individual by aligning with respected figures. Premising from the beginning of her address, she alludes to the cause of the American revolution, and the government’s power coming “from the consent” of the people as the two “fundamental principles” that “anchor” the liberty of the United States (39-40). This aligns her with the American ideals that founded the country. Building on that premise, she continues by
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.
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.