What is Douglass appealing to when he uses the phrase "deprives itself of one-half of all that is wisest and best
for its usefulness"?
Read the excerpt from Frederick Douglass's speech on
the emancipation of women.
If the sense and sum of human goodness in man and
woman combined is greater than in that of either alone
and separate, then the government that excludes
women from all participation in its creation, admiration,
and perpetuation, maims itself, deprives itself of one-half
of all that is wisest and best for its usefulness, success
and perfection.
O authority
O credibility
O emotions
O evidence