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Women's Rights and Abolitionism Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a long-time advocate of women's rights, in a speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society said, "Yes, this is the only organization on God's footstool where the humanity of women is recognized, and these are the only men who have ever echoed back her cries for justice and equality..." The American Women's Rights movement was very much a product of the fight for abolition. Early leaders, such a Stanton, …

…women had wisely continued to utilize the valuable knowledge and resources gained from them. Throughout their struggle they came back to the fundamental principles of justice and equality first discussed in the American Anti-Slavery. In addition, the basic organizational structure of abolitionism aided women's rights activists in forming their own groups to combat tyranny. That their struggle continued a full 60 years after abolition was reached is in no way reflective of a less cohesive group.