Similarities Between Susan B Anthony And Shirley Chislom

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Throughout the two speeches both Susan B. Anthony and Shirley Chislom both speak about women's rights yet their perspectives are from two completely different times, nearly 100 years apart. Though they were both significant pieces to the puzzle of feminism they fought at two completely different times in our nation Shirley Chislom spoke in 1969 during the last wave of feminism. While Susan B. Anthony spoke in 1873, during the first true wave of feminism. Both females bring in some key components to argue why women should have the same rights as men and both women were huge in the feministic eyes of our nation. Susan B. Anthony spoke with an intense account of logos as she uses the United States Constitution to compel her audience to acknowledge …show more content…

Anthony also pursues the fact of how mocking it is to the women when they are essentially imprisoned in their lives in our nation yet get no say in it. She also brings a religious aspect into her speech where she says that all are equal in the eyes of their creator and have constitutional rights including the right to life, liberty, and happiness. Anthony was a wise woman in the way she spoke to her audience as she keyed in on ideal matters during her time. On the other hand, Shirley Chisholm was a woman that wanted fair jobs, she disagreed with the fact that jobs were only for men and not women. She uses a demanding tone within her speech to push the point across that women deserve to have the same rights as men. She uses words that demand urge the listeners to focus on what she's saying. She truly pushes her point across with statistics like “3.5 million more women in the United States than men, this situation is outrageous” (Chisholm, 1969). She keyed in on an intense number to show the population and the work environment. Chiohlm then continues her point by saying an ambitious sentence that states “That one sex needs protection more than the other is a male supremacist myth as ridiculous and unworthy of respect as the white supremacist

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