The tone of this passage can be described as
from declaration of sentiments (1848)
oa assured
b.
disillusioned
lamenting
d.
offensive
when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the
family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that
which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's
god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.
we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal
that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights
governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed. whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the
institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness
prudence, indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be
ould not be
changed for light and transient causes, and accordingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their future security. such has been the
patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are
entitled
the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part
of man toward woman having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over her to prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world