" The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations [seizure of power] on the part of man toward women,...[to estabilish] absolute tyranny over her...[B}ecasue women do feel themselves aggreived, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privilleges which belong to them as citizens of the Unted States "
                  - Elizabeth Cady Station, Declaraion of Sentiments, 1848

    The women’s suffrage movement started to rise in 1848 at the Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments. It included a resolution calling women to fight for their right to vote. In the late 19th century, two organizations: National woman suffrage association and the American woman suffrage association formed The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) worked to earn right to vote for woman. When the 15th Amendment gave black men to vote, Many women suffragists including Lucy Stone, Susan B, Elizabeth Candy Stanton went against the amendment and they believed once the black man achieved their vote, women should achieve their goal too.
       In 1872, Anthony and a group of women were arrested and fined for voting illegally. At her trial, she made a stirring speech that ended with the slogan "Resistance to Tyranny Is Obedience to God."