Women have fought for their rights as human beings, as mothers, as corporate leaders for hundreds of years. Obviously, with every century, there were new issues and settings within which those rights were fought for. What remained the same was the ardent tenacity the women demonstrated while affirming their rights to BE and express themselves as an equal counterpart to men.
The Suffrage, the right to vote in political elections, is the movement artistically and emotionally portrayed in the movie Suffragette. To support the spirit of this movie and honor the 19th Amendment, a campaign “19 Days of Suffrage” was launched on November 2, 2015. Today is Day 4 we celebrate and dedicate to the sacred right of voting for women’s issues by women themselves.
As an election in this country is in the offing, all of us, women, should exercise our voting right to make our lives better through our intelligent effort and cooperation. Let’s not forget those who came before us, who sacrificed their lives, physical and emotional; who propelled our place in this society to the elevation we are observing and living today.
In my humble opinion, we gotta go back to historical facts and know what really happened. History, when it’s mistreated and forgotten, brings such events like fascism and genocide.
Some time ago I came across the article discussing women’s movement and the fight for our right to vote. I saved the photo that was taken in 1914 portraying women in their rally to affirm their participation in the society alongside with men as their equals.
Photo: Suffragette Movement, 1914
I always ask myself, “Could I do What These Women Did for Me?” In their time and age, it was a heroic generation of women who created a Suffragette movement that changed the whole world. I cannot just sit and be complacent in my life. The minimum I can do, as a token of my huge respect and emotional connection to all who came ahead of me, is to exercise my voting rights.
Look, it is about voting. It is about making your own life a better time to do what you were brought into this life to accomplish.
The Suffragette movie would encourage you to take your rights into your hands and own them. Go see the movie. Reconnect to the historical facts, faces and places of people who layed a foundation for a quality of life you and I are living today.
3 thoughts on “19 Days of Suffrage In Honor of the 19th Amendment #Suffragette”
It’s hard to imagine a time when women didn’t have all the rights we now have. It is important to remember it hasn’t always been the case.
I’m proud of being a woman and have been politically active since my student days, advocating the causes of human rights and equality. It always saddens me when I hear of people not being bothered to vote. Democracy and justice are the cornerstones of our Western belief-systems and the responsibility for maintaining these beliefs falls on each and every one of us.
i have not see n it but ihave gone through my history and it date bake to alot of the wars and then my fmaily had alot of millatary doc and then there wife were war nurse and then there kid took the chance some went to war and some were nurse and some docc one grandfater married 6 tim he outlive all but he was bried with all the kid and grand kid an all 6 wifes