Till the world ends...
My story in Pictures
Watch the video and say which document is the most powerful and why.
Profile 1.
Washington.
Demonstration methods
Picket the White House.
....Strike.
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What woud you be ready to do to make people listen to you?
The declaration of Sentiments.
The Declaration of Sentiments
Seneca Falls Conference, 1848
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to
abolish slavery called together the first conference to address Women's rights
and issues in SenecaFalls, New York, in 1848. Part of the reason for doing so
had been that Mott had been refused permission to speak at the world
anti-slavery convention in London, even though she had been an official
delegate. Applying the analysis of human freedom developed in the Abolitionist
movement, Stanton and others began the public career of modern feminist
analysis
The Declaration of the Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society. It was signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men.
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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; that to secure these rights governments are instituted,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who
suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of
a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness. Idea for personal document.
