Elizabeth Cady Stanton

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Declaration_of_Sentiments.ht of Sentiments
Author:
The primary source was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Place:
The primary source was written in Seneca Falls, New York and given as a speech at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Prior Knowledge:
Elizabeth Stanton was a writer, suffragist, woman's rights activist and abolitionist.
Audience:
The primary source was created fro the attendees of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Reason:
The primary source was created in order to put in published form the rights that women should and will be given.
Main Idea: 
The point of the source was to adequately covey the sentiments or views that women face from men on a daily basis.
Significance: 
The source was a first hand account against the wrongdoings men constantly did to women in the nineteenth century.

   Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnston, New York. She was agnostic and married in 1840. She had four children and died October 26, 1902.

 

     The biggest issue facing America is women's suffrage and the movement to obtain rights for woman; I fought for women's liberties for parental and custody, property, employment and income, divorce from husbands, and so forth to name a few. Women are undervalued and seen as insignificant by both African American and Anglo American standards; the only thing we are good for is producing children. This needs to change; women are not only vital, they are the caretakers of American values and are responsible for creating the next generation to carry on these morals. Under the present system of government the United States of America,  social justice for women cannot ever be obtained; our system is overrun by men who preserve the very idea that women belong in a kitchen and not a career.
     Individual human nature, i believe is interchangeable. As a young girl, i did all i could to make my father as proud as he was my brother, yet all he wished was for me to be a boy; an exact opposite, my neighbor Rev. Simon Hosack was a believer in my abilities, and saw past the fact that i was a female. Human nature is both good and bad; the bad weighs out the good and the good weighs out the bad. Legislation can change human behavior; i explain so in my speech, the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Immediate changes will be the answer to  our problems.
     Society is improved by active involvement. African Americans did not achieve the 14th and 15th Amendments by merely waiting; they went out and fought for their rights. Now women of all races must take notice and realize that if they want rights like a man, they must go out and fight for them like a man. A good society consists of equality between the genders, not one undermining the other.