“It is fifty-one years since we first met, and we have been busy through every one of them, stirring up the world to recognize the rights of women,” Susan B. Anthony wrote her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1902.
The letter, in honor of Stanton’s eighty-seventh birthday, was printed in Pearson’s Magazine. It continued: “We little dreamed when we began this contest, optimistic with the hope and buoyancy of youth, that half a century later we would be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation of women. But our hearts are filled with joy to know that they enter upon this task equipped with a college education, with business experience, with the fully admitted right to speak in public—all of which were denied to women fifty years ago. They have practically one point to gain—the suffrage; we had all.”
Anthony’s reflections reveal a friendship that was public and political but also private and genuine. From their activist beginnings in the antislavery and temperance movements to their leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the two women—Anthony as an on-the-ground organizer and strategist and Stanton as a writer, thinker, and commentator—were an inseparable force.
The theme of Anthony's words to Stanton can be described as:
A)a celebration of the gains they have made for future generations of women fighting for voting rights
B)a celebration of the fact they had finally succeeded in their goal of voting rights
C)an angry protest of the continued rejection of women's voting rights
D)an admittance that, now that women are able to work, go to college, and speak freely, they no longer need the right to vote
A
Based on the theme of the passage, which of the following statements would Susan B. Anthony most agree with?
A)If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself
B)If it ain't broke, don't fix it
C)Alone we are strong, together we are stronger
D)It's now or never
confused on this one
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