It tells us to pick ourselves up and fill our hearts with hope that we can achieve anything we want to. We need to be our own heroes and stand up for what we believe is right.Īnd the following song, sung by yet another inspirational woman, Mariah Carey from my point of view has everything to do with being your own hero and finding strength in yourself. We will in our lifetime probably always be thought upon as a minority. They are still, in a sense, discriminated against.Īnd there will more than likely be no one to save us when we are faced with such discrimination. Anthony was a women’s right activist and anti-slavery petitioner who in 1872, was arrested for voting, a right only men had at the time.Īnd despite their hard work and efforts, women are still taken advantage of today. She went silent for 5 years straight because of these inexcusable acts. Instead, 7th President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner and practically the complete opposite of Harriet was given the space he was in my opinion, undoubtedly unworthy of.Īnd another wonderful woman, Maya Angelou, a civil rights activist, poet, and singer was taken advantage of, many times by her boyfriend by being sexually abused. However, she wasn’t permitted a spot on the 20 dollar bill arguably due to both her gender and race. Her heart was in the right place but still, she was attacked both verbally and physically.Īnd Harriet Tubman saved hundreds of people from slavery in the south by traveling back and fourth 100 miles 13 times and helped construct the underground railroad. She was a highly intelligent young lady in Pakistan who was unable to go to school in response to her gender and thus spent much of her life fighting for those rights. And because of these problems, our society has failed to accept many wonderful people for these meaningless reasons.

but the discrimination based on race, religion, and beliefs have been major problems as well. Not only has sexism been prevalent in the U.S. was formed in 1776 to the year women were able to vote in 1920. In the U.S., it took us a disgraceful 144 years from the year the U.S. But the fact of the matter is, those events weren’t that long ago.

At least, that’s what many people believe. In early society, women were simply pushed aside and not given the opportunity to go to school or even vote.

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