womens rights
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- Over time, women got more and more rights. Now all women in the United States have the same number of rights as men do, the right to vote, college/schools, able to speak publicly and speak their opinions, and they can now depend on their selves.
- Declaration of Sentiments
- "When, in the course of human evens, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto [before] occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.""We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....""The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and [wrongful takings of power] on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world....Now, in view of this entire [withholding of rights] 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."-Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments.
- Susan B. Anthony wanted equal pay and college training for women. She also made the country's first women's temperance association.
- Susan B. Anthony / Daughters of Temperance
- "WE SHOULD HAVE ALCOHOL BANNED, BECAUSE OF ALCOHOL WE HAVE ABUSIVE AND UNHAPPY MARRIAGE."
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