Women's Right to Vote Anthony
"I don't understand why these people are making such a big deal about the right to vote. What's so great about voting?"
"A lot of things. Do you vote yet?"
"Yes."
"OK. You probably don?t care much whether you do or not right now do you?"
"Not really. It doesn?t seem to make much difference."
"A lot of people think that way, but it had to have mattered to some one or you wouldn't have the option would you? Many people died for that right because they thought it was worth their lives to give the right to future generations. Think about what the other option is. Right now you can do what you want, go where you want and you?re not responsible to any one. What if you were? What if you couldn't do anything without being accompanied by a man, your father or brother or some other relation? You couldn't hold a job, own property, and you had now say in laws but you still had to obey them."
"There are laws I have to obey that I have now say in now."
"Not like it was back then. I know you too well to think you don't voice your opinion about things whether you should be able to or not. These women could be jailed or punished for speaking their minds. And there were laws that affected only women but they never had the option to say yes or no."
"But if you grew up that way wouldn?t you be used to it?"
"Some women were, but when the slaves were freed in the Civil War they started to look at the world differently. Now there were blacks, who had been below them in the social order, who were allowed to vote. How do you think that made them feel?"
"I guess they might feel left out, like inferiors. I mean, they were just as smart as the men. Women just think differently than men."
"That's why they fought for the right to vote."