What is WOMEN’s HISTORY MONTH?
Women’s History Month is an annual observance in the United States (and other countries) that celebrates the contributions and achievements of women throughout history. It takes place every year during the month of March.
What is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’s DAY?
International Women’s Day is a global celebration held annually on March 8 to honor the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women worldwide. It also serves as a day to raise awareness about the ongoing struggles for gender equality and women’s rights.
Here are five women who worked for JUSTICE.
Phyllis Wheatley was an African poet, widely recognized as the first published African American female poet. She was born around 1753 in west Africa.
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describes the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through the air to find the bright abode,
Th’ empyreal palace of the thundering God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th’ unbounded soul.
ON IMAGINATION by Phyllis Wheatley 1773
- Harriet Tubman
Tubman was born into slavery in 1822, and later escaped from Dorchester County, Maryland to Philadelphia where she lived as a free woman. She desired to put her whole life into ending slavery. She brought approximately 70 enslaved African Americans to freedom in the north.
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had the right to, Liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. -Harriet Tubman, 1886
- Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a crucial role in the women’s suffrage movement. She was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.
What did Susan B. Anthony say about justice?
Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
- Elanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She was born on October 11, 1884. New York. NY
I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time—that is the preservation of human freedom. I have chosen to discuss it here in France, at the Sorbonne, because here in this soil the roots of human freedom have long ago struck deep and here they have been richly nourished. It was here the Declaration of the Rights of Man was proclaimed, and the great slogans of the French Revolution–liberty, equality, fraternity–fired the imagination of men. I have chosen to discuss this issue in Europe because this has been the scene of the greatest historic battles between freedom and tyranny. I have chosen to discuss it in the early days of the General Assembly because the issue of human liberty is decisive for the settlement of outstanding political differences and for the future of the United Nations -Paris 1948 “The Struggles for the Rights of Man.”
- Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009 and has served since August 8, 2009 .
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” Never in the history of our republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward however all federal presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent. ”
July 2024 Trump vs United States Dissenting Opinion