Declaration Of Sentiments By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Throughout our country’s history individuals have come together to fight for a better life in the future. Advocates for human rights such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and Langston Hughes have been motivating readers everywhere. Motivation to change comes from feeling such as oppression, misery, and both freedom and liberty together. To begin with, Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 summoned the first Women’s Rights conference with her speech “Declaration of Sentiments” to campaign that women have been oppressed by being denied basic human rights such as the right to vote, own property, and be equal under the law. For example, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man towards women, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.” (Stanton, 340). Another example is, “ He has created a false public sentiment by giving the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account to man.” (Stanton, 341). The history of our country has shown the oppression that people have gone

The motivation to change was the misery slaves had to go through to achieve change. For example, “Who so obdurate and dead to the claims and gratitude that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits.” (Douglass, 289). Another example is, “ America is false to the false to the past false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” ( Douglass, 290). Part of this world refuses to see their actions as wrong and immoral but change can always be something