Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), the president of the National Woman ... Independence, Stanton addresses all of the wrongdoings done to women, by men. "In the covenant of marriage, she is becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master – the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement." (Stanton 1-2). Here, she explains how "He" is compared to a woman's master when married. Although ... National Woman ...

• Word Count: 1861
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... not limited to suffrage, she believed that women had been predestined to an inferior status by unshakable attitudes based on Judeo- Christian tradition, English common law, American statutes, and social customs. She frequently compared the position of woman to that of slaves, and she worked to abolish both forms of ... to wait and try to change the laws instead. So with her father's disappointment in her sex and his advice to try to change the law, Elizabeth's mind was full of ideas. I believe Elizabeth's childhood plays a momentous part in determining her values, and indefinitely shaped...

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... "men" is unclear. Today, "men" encompasses just about everyone, including women and minorities, in most aspects. Everyone has a right to liberty, unless they give up that right by breaking the law, and everyone can pursue a life that will make them happy, (though that doesn't always happen!) This was not always true. In our nation's beginning, the "men" of the declaration only ... and a good job with substantial wages. "He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not know...

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... focus of women's rights. Susan and Elizabeth developed the National Women's Suffrage Association to focus on the women's suffrage amendment to the constitution. She felt that the 15th Amendment was unjust although it finally allowed black men to vote, women still could not. In 1868, Susan published a weekly newspaper called the Revolution which focused on women's equal rights. She also gave ... a regular speaker at it conventions. During her sixty years of service toward suffrage she gave about 75-100 speeches yearly. Susan died fourteen years later before the 19th Amendment became a la...

• Word Count: 1339
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