WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY - AUGUST 26

“It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor we, the male citizens but we the whole people who formed this Union. We formed it not to give the blessings of liberty but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people, women as well as men.”
Susan B. Anthony, 1872

"Because we cannot – we must not- ever forget that the rights and opportunities we enjoy as women today were not just bestowed upon us by some benevolent ruler: They were fought for, agonized over, marched for; jailed for and even died for by brave and persistent women and men who came before us…

That is one of the great joys and beauties of the American experiment. We are always striving to build and move toward ‘a more perfect union’ that we on every occasion keep faith with our founding ideas and translate them into reality"
Hillary Clinton, 1998

From the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 to the final ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 26, 1920, American women organized and worked to win their rights as citizens.

The challenges before us today are different; we have all the rights our foremothers fought for. How will we use them?