“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has” stated Margaret Mead. The Women’s Rights movement starts its beginning as July 13, 1848. This women’s movement didn’t just happen because someone thought that it was time for women to have the same rights as men but because women of all ages came together at the start of it in order to fight for equality among the sexes and this was something they were passionate about. Women have seriously affected changes in laws and human nature by holding meetings, petition drives, public speaking and other effective ways. These leaders of the movement fought for freedom in family life, religion, government, employment, and education. Over several years they have slowly but successfully gained access to these freedoms because of a group of women who never gave up for futuristic women and who fought in the things they believed in like freedoms. The year is 1840 and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott traveled with their husbands to the Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention, but the women were not allowed to participate. Mott and Stanton became friends and together planned their own convention to expand and further the cause for Women’s Rights. These women were both Quakers and came from small towns. Stanton is most famous for her Women’s Bible and leading the Women’s Right Convention. Finally the summer of 1848 came around and Stanton, along with Mott and three other women called together the Seneca Falls Convention. There were 300 attendees which included around 40 men. They discussed women’s rights and brought together the Declaration of Sentiments. These women got 100 people to sign the Declaration.
One of the leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. This drew its inspiration from the