Celebrating the women Veterans whose courage and sacrifice help demonstrate equality - VAntage...

“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.”

The drafters of the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 drew their inspiration from the Declaration of Independence but modified it to demand rights for women. Man, they noted, has “never permitted [woman] to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”
The drafters of the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 drew their inspiration from the Declaration of Independence but modified it to demand rights for women. Man, they noted, has “never permitted [woman] to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”
The drafters of the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 drew their inspiration from the Declaration of Independence but modified it to demand rights for women. Man, they noted, has “never permitted [woman] to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”