Women's Rights...

After reading the Declaration Of Sentiments I was moved to blog about women's rights and how doing the nineteenth century women were deprived of all their human rights. To me they were on the same social class as slaves in a way. Although in every situation there is someone that no matter what their facing finds a way to rise above it all. I'm thankful for people like Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for their selflessness stand. In an era when women had no voice they found  a way to speak out about the injustice against all women. They were able to create a movement for social justice and learned from anti-slavery societies how to organize a political protest. These women help the very first Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls, NY in June 1848 and from that movement led to the demand of women's right, even though it took them another seventy years before the american women won the right to vote. Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments that was modeled by the Declaration of Independence because it uses the language to argue the fact that all humans rather black, white, male or female has an equal right. Now before the movement took place women weren't given any rights and in the Declaration of Sentiments it said "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead" (Norton 51). The significance of the quote to me meant that women didn't have any civil rights, and that the man was the ruler over her. In that era the men had even destoryed the womens confidence in every area of her life. The women was deprived from getting an education " He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a through education all colleges being closed against her" (Norton 51). She was allowed to attend church but was to be subordinate and be submissive. So as a women in the 21 century I appreciate the way that was paved for me by the pioneers of the pass and will exercise my civil right as a women to vote. I have to admit that I'm blogging in the middle of the 2012 Presidential Election and I'm very distracted right now so I'm going to end this blog and continue watching to see who will be the 45th president of the U.S.