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Elizabeth Cady Stanton feels compelled to speak out on women's rights because women alone understand the depth of their degradation. She argues that man cannot judge women accurately because they have been taught women differ greatly from men. However, moral beings can only judge others based on themselves. Once it is accepted that women think and feel like men, true understanding can begin.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton feels compelled to speak out on women's rights because women alone understand the depth of their degradation. She argues that man cannot judge women accurately because they have been taught women differ greatly from men. However, moral beings can only judge others based on themselves. Once it is accepted that women think and feel like men, true understanding can begin.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton feels compelled to speak out on women's rights because women alone understand the depth of their degradation. She argues that man cannot judge women accurately because they have been taught women differ greatly from men. However, moral beings can only judge others based on themselves. Once it is accepted that women think and feel like men, true understanding can begin.
An excerpt from Address on Womans Rights by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, September 1848.
I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you wholly unused as I
am to public speaking, were I not nerved by a sense of right and dutydid I not feel that the time had fully come for the question of woman's wrongs to be laid before the publicdid I not believe that woman herself must do this work for woman alone can understand the height and the depth, the length and the breadth of her own degradation and woe. Man cannot speak for usbecause he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselvesthe moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utterly fail. The drunkard was hopelessly lost until it was discovered that he was governed by the same laws of mind as the sober man. Then with what magic power, by kindness and love, was he raised from the slough of despond and placed rejoicing on high land. Let a man once settle the question that woman does not think and feel like himself and he may as well undertake to judge of the amount of intellect and sensation of any of the animal creation as of woman's nature. He can know but little with certainty, and that but by observation. Summary: In Address on Womans Rights, Elizabeth is speaking to a crowd of men and women about womens rights and that women should be treated with the same respect as men. This document helps show how the ideas Elizabeth Cady Stanton was implementing, later helped change society. Pov: As a womens rights activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton would use her own personal experience, as well as the experience of those around her of being mistreated to be giving the speeches like the one above.
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