1. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are 2. created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 3. inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of 4. happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, 5. deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever 6. any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right 7. of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon 8. the institution of a new government , laying its foundation on such 9. principles, and organizing its powers in such form , as to them shall seem 10. most likely to effect their safety and happiness . Prudence , indeed, will 11. dictate that governments long established should not be changed for 12. light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown 13. that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable , than 14. to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are 15. accustomed . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations , pursuing 16. in- variably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under 17. absolute despotism , it is their duty to throw off such government , and to 18. provide new guards for their future security Such has been the patient 19. sufferance of the women under this government , and such is now the 20. necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which 21. they are entitled . The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries 22. and usurpations on the part of man toward woman , having in direct 23. object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. ( Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Conference , New York , 1848. ) Lines 21-23 ("The history over her .") is a
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