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Based on every amendment, is it possible for humanity to treat and be treated equal? Why can’t we be equal , is it too hard to just be kind and let your anger disappear, why are we fighting, is there even a reason why or are we just trying prove something to our self? On the 19th amendment is talking about women having their rights and being equal to men. The 15th amendment is mainly about giving blacks the right to vote. These two amendments talk about equality. Would you like to be black and be a slave? Many women, mostly Africans women participated in the women's suffrage movement. Since we are free now, but, not completely would you as a women like to be treated differently then men and have your right to vote taken away? Why is equality, …show more content…
Why or why not? Why is it to hard to succeed in equality? Based on the amendments nothing is impossible. Both the amendments 15 & 19 talk about rights. The 15 amendment is mainly about the black suffrage and how blacks cannot be enslaved, the 19 talks about how the women are free to vote and they have their own rights.THese are the only two amendments that related to freedom why do you think these laws were created? That proves that if you take a stand about for what you believe nothing is impossible. A bunch of women started a women's sufferage to have rights to own land and to vote so they stood their ground. As they wanted rights and stood up for it, they finally made progress and got rights as they wished but it took hard work. The 15th amendment means that the blacks had the freedom to be free and to have rights like the rest of us. We can try to be equal and be treated equally, but someone may not like it or may not respect our rights. We can be free, but there will be times when we get disrespected just for our skin color or the way we do stuff an all so the way we look for me there is no such thing as equality but maybe there's hope of this society achieving …show more content…
Equality to me will never be achieved because some people don't want to respect other people, including Blacks, White, Mexican, Asians, Philippines. No one in the universe is going to be treated equally even if they don't like it. The first amendment talks about being having the right to speak and to have your own religion and stuff like that, we made progress to get the chance to speak to get the right to be free so, so far equality is still a hope. Since we have the 1st amendment, we can speak our minds, but using appropriate language now we have the right to be free and to speak. We are making progress so far, but can we try harder to succeed. Through the 1st amendment, we have the right to speak and to choose our religion etc. we are able to succeed in expression, but the real question is will we ever be able to succeed in equality? So far the world is capable of achieving equality? With the 1st amendment we have the right to speak. how will we deal with judging and racism. Will society be free of racism and judging? Many people don't think so, judging will never be changed because in order to change racism you’ll have to change the people and the way they think. Equality is having the right to be free and have rights. Many people want equality, but some don't ,but why? Some people don't want it because equality means everyone, including whites to blacks, Indians

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