Declaration of sentiments when in the course of human events 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 occupied but one to which the laws of nature and of nature s god entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind.
Declaration of sentiments now. This year marks the 169th anniversary of the declaration of sentiments the first major positive affirmation of women s rights in american history. The declaration of sentiments. We bring passion anger hope love and perseverance to create this vision for the future. 1998 declaration of sentiments of the national organization for women on this twelfth day of july 1998 the delegates of the national organization for women gather in convention on the one hundred and fiftieth year of the women s rights movement.
Unfortunately many of the issues it discusses. Declaration of sentiments document outlining the rights that american women should be entitled to as citizens that emerged from the seneca falls convention in new york in july 1848. The declaration of sentiments. Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c.
Held in seneca falls new york the convention is now known as the seneca falls convention the principal author of the declaration was elizabeth cady stanton. At this meeting elizabeth cady stanton read her now famous declaration of sentiments protesting women s inferior legal status and listing eleven resolutions for the moral economic and political equality of women the most radical of which demanded the elective franchise.