America has always been defined by the constitution, the amendments, and most importantly, by the people of the United States. Notice what is not listed: the freedoms given to the people of the United States by these three crucial establishments. This one incredibly significant element is not mentioned here because, throughout history, freedom has not been enjoyed by all who should have had freedom in the US. Susan B. Anthony is a prime example of a woman denied her freedoms and considered less than a full citizen of the United States of America.
             Women's suffrage will forever be linked with Anthony because she became a symbol of women's voting rights when she took matters into her own hands and voted before it was legal. Writing her speech in defense of this action, as we will discuss, Anthony clearly puts words to her mindset at the time of her arrest. Susan B. Anthony begins her speech using, "I," which implies that what she is stating is from her, by her, and that she takes full responsibility as she addresses her audience and her accusers. This in example of her using the persuasive tactic of "Kairos." She states, "I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but instead simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution beyond the power of any state to deny." (Anthony 13)
             Anthony is therefore trying to clarify to the general public that she was not committing a crime but instead exercising the right to vote that she "already" has. She does this by using words like "alleged" to formulate the idea that it has not yet been proven to be a crime. In Anthony's speech she emphasizes the use of "Etho...