Why is it that the powerful dominate over the weak? Is it because the weak don't push for their rights? Or maybe is it because we don't have the strength, the anger, the frustration to fight. Whether it's the anger about segregation of whites and black or women not being treated equally or slaves saddened by their captivity, all these people have to push for their rights. Over the past few hundred years, many different cultures have been mistreated and shamed. Not to mention angry of the injustice and inequality. One of the groups that feel this anger are women by the lack of equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her speech ¨Declaration of Sentiments¨, tells us that women deserve the
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Frederick Douglass, tells us his frustration in ¨What to the Slaves to the Slaves to the Fourth of July¨ that, ¨must I [Frederick Douglass] undertake to prove that a slave is a man?¨ (Douglass 291) he has already pointed out that men are a slave that even ¨slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of Laws for their government”(291). And they even acknowledge it when a black man and white man were committed to the exact same crime and were both punished equally. Douglass explains to us, ¨when you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave¨(291). He´s frustrated that he has to keep repeating himself that men are not the slave. Douglass explains to his listeners,¨ The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine¨(290) He feels that this isn't right. Because why do we have to suffer on the back of the immigrants celebrating their freedom coming to America. When we didn't receive any of that when coming to America. Because people like Frederick Douglass that pushed for their freedom is why there is no slavery
Frederick Douglass, tells us his frustration in ¨What to the Slaves to the Slaves to the Fourth of July¨ that, ¨must I [Frederick Douglass] undertake to prove that a slave is a man?¨ (Douglass 291) he has already pointed out that men are a slave that even ¨slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of Laws for their government”(291). And they even acknowledge it when a black man and white man were committed to the exact same crime and were both punished equally. Douglass explains to us, ¨when you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave¨(291). He´s frustrated that he has to keep repeating himself that men are not the slave. Douglass explains to his listeners,¨ The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine¨(290) He feels that this isn't right. Because why do we have to suffer on the back of the immigrants celebrating their freedom coming to America. When we didn't receive any of that when coming to America. Because people like Frederick Douglass that pushed for their freedom is why there is no slavery