Hello, this is Beckett. The following is the text of Declaration of Sentiments, a work

that Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented to the Seneca Falls Conference, the very first

conference to address women's rights and issues in 1848. The Declaration was amended

and discussed during the convention and it was signed by 68 women and 32 men. The 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 Earth a position different from which

they have either to occupy, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle

them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes

that impel them to such a course. 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 affect their safety and happiness. Prudence

indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light

and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more

disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to write themselves by abolishing the

forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations,

pursuing invariably the same object, evils as a design to reduce them under absolute

despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for

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