“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly blind to the future” (Douglass 287). This falls in place for both of the speeches because both of them are fighting to be more free. Stanton is trying to get more freedom for women and Douglass is trying to be free from the white man. They both just want to be able do the same as white man. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the same basic purpose for giving their respective speeches, however, they accomplished their end goal in very different way, including emotionally based speeches, they used very harsh words and rhetorical questions.
In Frederick Douglass speech he is giving his point of view on how they slave are being treated. He his telling his readers that the slaves feel like they shouldn’t …show more content…
The owners of the slaves will wipe the slaves. Douglass states “to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash” (Douglass 288). Douglass has gone through all these thing. He know what it’s like to be a slave.
In Stanton’s Declaration of sentiments she is tired of the men in the country having more power. She feels like she can do the same thing as the men or more. Stanton want women to be able to go get better school past like high school. Stanton states in her Declaration that “in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion if the family man to assume ame the people” (Stanton 295).Stanton was trying to get more rights for women
She was trying to show the men of the country that they were more than someone who stays at home and cleans all day. Stanton states that “all men and women are created equal” (295). She is saying that women shouldn’t be look down on because they are different then men. She wants them to be able to have a saying in the country that they are apart of. At this time in America the women had no say in anything it was men that had the say in
In Frederick Douglass speech he is giving his point of view on how they slave are being treated. He his telling his readers that the slaves feel like they shouldn’t …show more content…
The owners of the slaves will wipe the slaves. Douglass states “to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash” (Douglass 288). Douglass has gone through all these thing. He know what it’s like to be a slave.
In Stanton’s Declaration of sentiments she is tired of the men in the country having more power. She feels like she can do the same thing as the men or more. Stanton want women to be able to go get better school past like high school. Stanton states in her Declaration that “in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion if the family man to assume ame the people” (Stanton 295).Stanton was trying to get more rights for women
She was trying to show the men of the country that they were more than someone who stays at home and cleans all day. Stanton states that “all men and women are created equal” (295). She is saying that women shouldn’t be look down on because they are different then men. She wants them to be able to have a saying in the country that they are apart of. At this time in America the women had no say in anything it was men that had the say in