declaration_of_sentiments_1848 Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speech Delivered at the First Women’s Rights Convention 1848 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 ...
"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence," said Lincoln in an improvised speech on the eve of his first inauguration. "I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this Conf...
“Declaration of Sentiments”—although many of the signatories later withdrew their names because of the intense ridicule andcriticismthey received after the document was made public. Nevertheless, in a July 28 editorial in his paper,The North Star, Douglass wrote that the statement was “to be ...