She suggested three points: Should not all women, living in States where they have the right to hold property, refuse to pay taxes so long as they are unrepresented in the government ?...

Man has pre-empted the most profitable branches of industry, and we demand a place at his side; to this end we need the same advantages of education, and we therefore claim that the best colleges of the country be opened to us....

In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more helpless and complete.
In the course of her argument Lucy Stone said: The claims we make at these conventions are self-evident truths.
The second resolution affirms the right of human beings to their persons and earnings.

Is not that self-evident?
Yet the common law, which regulates the relation of husband and wife, and is modified only in a few instances by the statutes, gives the "custody" of the wife's person to the husband, so that he has a right to her even against herself.

It gives him her earnings, no matter with what weariness they have been acquired, or how greatly she may need them for herself or her children.