A thank you to the women who gave me the right to vote

[cally]

and hold office. I honor your activism, strength, and integrity. Here's to you: :toast: Happy women's suffrage day!!

[Rainscents]

1. Here to you!

:toast:

[Cerridwen]

2. I'll add my thanks to yours.

:toast:

[orpupilofnature57]

3. As a man ,let me also say Thanks for the 19 amendment, and a better

World.

[recovering democrat]

4. My thanks too!

May we honor them with OUR activism, strength and integrity.

Sojourner Truth: " If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.



:toast:

[Robbien]

5. Wow. One State wouldn't ratify the voting amendment until 1984!

Proposed by the 66th Congress in 1919, the amendment was declared to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 states in a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated August 26, 1920.

With the exception of Connecticut, Vermont and Delaware, all the states who didn't agree with women's right to vote were southern states —Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Tennessee was the only state in the south to agree with the rest of the country. That state ratified with the others by Aug. 18, 1920.

Not so for the remaining 12 states. They didn't complete ratification for many years after that date. Florida didn't approve the amendment until May 13, 1969 and the last state to hold out was Mississippi, March 22, 1984 (after having last rejected it on March 29, 1920).

Also, many of the women who started the movement didn't live to see the 1920 amendment get added to the constituion. My thanks to them all.

[cally]

6. The leaders didn't see the final victory

I thank them all for their courage.

[cassiepriam]

7. And the women in the 60s who protested for open doors to all professions.

Something girls today take for granted. That they can be
and do anything.

[OzarkDem]

9. Happy to do it

Many women who were pioneers in the business world back in the early - mid 10970's put up with a lot, but wanted to do it for all the other women to follow.

[cassiepriam]

11. yes it was very difficult in those days to be anything but a nurse

or teacher. Many women trailblazed the way into other professions at great personal expense.

[never_get_over_it]

8. Because of these women

and all they did for ME - I have made a vow to ALWAYS vote - didn't think that would be a vow that would be hard to keep - but since moving to FL the thought that my vote was counted for the other guy has literally caused me sleepless nights and a sick stomach on more than one occasion

Thank you to all my fore mothers who made my vote possible. I promise to keep voting.

[Misunderestimator]

10. I'll add my thanks!

And thank you for putting it that way. Those women were the ones who "gave" US the right to vote. No one gave them anything. Many of them sacrificed their lives to give us this right.

:patriot:

[struggle4progress]

12. Don't forget: there are always wackos who want to take these rights away

under the guise of Biblical literalism ... or perhaps as beleaguered Republicans "defending" election integrity

[bobbolink]

13. So many women suffered so deeply, and some died, for our right..

I'm so amazed at women who don't take seriously what they did for us!

The really gross things that some of them endured, and kept on....

:patriot: :grouphug: :patriot: