The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was a great thing for all women. This started women’s rights and equality. I really liked the quote, “He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce; in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given; as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women—the law, in all cases, going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.” I feel that this quote is giving women the right to be happy. It’s allowing them to leave an unhappy relationship, which before they couldn't do or if they did they were ridiculed and out casted.
Another quote I find interesting and very important is “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education—all colleges being closed against her” and the footnote states “Oberlin College was the exception; it admitted women at its founding and granted them bachelor degrees in 1841.” To me this means that up until this time only one college allowed women to get a higher education but the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was now granting women to go to any college that they wanted to go to.
“He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.” This quote is the most important and most sad one in this article. It just goes to us all how poorly women were treated and how they were thought of as objects and not people. Without The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions us women wouldn’t have half the rights we do and we possibly could still be treated as someone’s property not our own person.
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