Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said, “Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.” But it is also the same for the blacks at the time, they who are black or are female do not compare to the men of America. In “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” and the “Declaration of Sentiments”, Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the same basic purpose for giving their respective speeches, and they accomplished their end goal in very similar ways, including, that they both wanted equality, they had experience, and both were very brave. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were both very brave because they got up in front of
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She was a woman, in that right women didn’t have rights. She was brave because she was going against the bible as it says, “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. (1 Cor. 11:3.). She stated what the men in America had but the women didn’t. She stated “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men- both natives and foreigners.” (Stanton 296). Elizabeth Cady Stanton also talked about in the ‘Declaration of Sentiments”, how the women of this time were only seen as people if it benefitted the government. “After depriving her of all rights as a woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government, which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it” (286), that statement shows that only when she has property and has to pay the taxes on it, she is a citizen. They were both very brave, they both stuck up for what they believed
She was a woman, in that right women didn’t have rights. She was brave because she was going against the bible as it says, “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. (1 Cor. 11:3.). She stated what the men in America had but the women didn’t. She stated “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men- both natives and foreigners.” (Stanton 296). Elizabeth Cady Stanton also talked about in the ‘Declaration of Sentiments”, how the women of this time were only seen as people if it benefitted the government. “After depriving her of all rights as a woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government, which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it” (286), that statement shows that only when she has property and has to pay the taxes on it, she is a citizen. They were both very brave, they both stuck up for what they believed