Quotes From the Declaration of Sentiments

Here are some quotes from the Declaration of Independence, written  by Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 

•  “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.”

•  “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education - all colleges being closed against her.”

•   “After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it.”

•  “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”

•  “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.” 

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

About Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman's rights activist and abolitionist. When she was growing up that men and women were not treated as equals under the law. Elizabeth Cady Stanton strongly believed this was unfair. She attended  school as a child, which was unusual for many girls and also attended a girls collage. While in college, she furthered her studies on the rights of individuals and believed everyone should be treated as equals. She then married a man named Henry Stanton in 1840, who was an abolitionist. Elizabeth also participated in many anti-slavery conventions. meeting many women who had the same interests in the fight for women's rights like she had, such Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony. They all worked together by campaigning for women's suffrage, or a woman's right to vote. In 1850, the first woman's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This was held by Elizabeth and other women's suffragists and the Declaration of Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was signed here, stating men and women should be treated as equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and formed the National Woman's Suffrage Association, which petitioned for women to have the right to vote. Unfortunately, they did not live to see women have the right to vote when the nineteenth amendment was instituted.