Read the excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s speech on the emancipation of women. The fundamental proposition of the woman suffrage movement is scarcely less simple than that of the anti-slavery movement. It assumes that woman is herself. That she belongs to herself, just as fully as man belongs to himself—that she is a person and has all the attributes of personality that can be claimed by man, and that her rights of person are equal in all respects to those of man. She has the same number of senses that distinguish man, and is like man a subject of human government, capable of understanding, obeying and being affected by law.

Which statement best expresses Douglass’s point of view?

a. Women should share the same personal rights as men.
b. Women are more capable than men of understanding the laws.
c. Men are more sensible than women on the subject of government.
d. Men should have a more fundamental part in the anti-slavery movement than women.