Read the excerpt from "what to the slave is the fourth of july? "
but i fancy i hear some one of my audience say, "it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists
fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. would you argue more, and denounce less; would you
persuade more, and rebuke less; your cause would be much more likely to succeed." but, i submit, where all is plain
there is nothing to be argued. what point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? on what branch of the
subject do the people of this country need light? must i undertake to prove that the slave is a man? that point is
conceded already. nobody doubts it.
which statement best explains why this is an example of a counterclaim by douglass?
douglass addresses a potential argument of the other side and makes a case against it.
douglass addresses a potential argument of the other side and admits the point is solid.
douglass makes a claim and offers facts to support it
douglass makes a claim and admits the flaws within it.
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Which excerpt from shirley chisholm’s speech “equal rights for women” provides support for chisholm’s analysis of how the facts justify her conclusion? `it is true that part of the problem has been that women have not been aggressive in demanding their rights. this was also true of the black population for many years. they submitted to oppression and even cooperated with it. women have done the same thing. `women need no protection that men do not need. what we need are laws to protect working people, to guarantee them fair pay, safe working conditions, protection against sickness and layoffs, and provision for dignified, comfortable retirement. men and women need these things equally. that one sex needs protection more than the other is a male supremacist myth. `it is obvious that discrimination exists. women do not have the opportunities that men do. and women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as ‘‘odd’’ and “unfeminine.” the fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board, or a member of the house, does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. `as in the field of equal rights for blacks, spanish-americans, the indians, and other groups, laws will not change such deep-seated problems overnight. but they can be used to provide protection for those who are most abused, and to begin the process of evolutionary change by compelling the insensitive majority to reexamine its unconscious attitudes.