Read the passage below carefully. Select the phrases that were borrowed from the Declaration of Independence. 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 [before] occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them . . . ,

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. . . .

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and [wrongful takings of power] on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her . . .

Now, in view of this entire [withholding of rights] of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation,—in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.
—Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Mott, Lucretia, Mary Ann McClintock, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane C. Hunt and Martha C. Wright. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, July 19-20, 1848. Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.