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Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

( 1848 ) Commentary by Donna M. DeBlasio, Youngstown State University
  • “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” - Paragraph 2
  • “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.” - Paragraph 3
  • “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.” - Paragraph 4
  • “He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners.” - Paragraph 6
  • “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.” - Paragraph 7
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