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  • Essay / Analysis by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Douglass

    And so for the people whose religious people said that men have the right to control women and that women should obey them, it was not so easy for them to accept that women and men are equal and be treated equally. Although there were many objections and disagreements about women's rights, and many people tried to stop the movement or mocked those who thought women were equal to men, this did not didn't stop women from fighting. “In 1851, Stanton partnered with Susan B. Anthony, and both devoted much of the rest of their lives to fighting discrimination against women. However, there is no doubt that it was Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments that first politicized the issues that would take center stage in the struggle to achieve equality for women. (Inglis-Arkell) these women sacrificed their lives so that women could have their own rights. A lot of people made fun of them, a lot of people excluded them from society or the community, and the saddest thing is that they all died before women had the right to vote, except for One of them, Charlotte Woodward Pierce. She was the only person in her late teens when she signed the declaration and was lucky enough to stay alive and finally see the outcome of their