This is a picture of the Declaration of Sentiments itself. It is very famous and still referred back to today as a great suffragist source. |
The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Elizabeth Cady Santon in 1848. This was a document written towards woman; and the main objective of this piece was to let woman have more rights and say in what happens. The Declaration of Sentiments was mainly important because it was the "grand basis for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."
A quote from the Declaration of Sentiments: "Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation - in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States." |