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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
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“In 2020, the League of Women Voters will celebrate its centennial founding along with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Yet the fight for voting rights continues to this day, and many citizens fail to vote in every election. Voting is your real power. Use that power wisely.” —Peggy Bader, Director of the League of Women Voters, Bucks County
“Every time I think of the centennial, I’m impressed by the courage, the vision and the strategic smarts of the women—and their male allies—who won the vote. They ran campaigns in every state and a national campaign, too—giving speeches on street corners, going up and down tenement stairs to get signatures on petitions, speaking at luncheons and women’s clubs, and demonstrating with banners at the White House. Their strength and determination made our rights as citizens real, and they set an example for us today.” —Ann C. Lewis, Ann Lewis Women’s Suffrage Collection
“I think of the suffragists every time I vote, but never more than when I ran for Congress.” —Elizabeth Moro, Chadds Ford community leader and realtor
“The year 2020 is cause for celebration and reflection on how precious the right to vote is. If you can only do one thing to help our government, speak up and vote every time you have the opportunity.” —Pennsylvania Rep. Carolyn Comitta, 156th District
“I think it’s important to remember the stories of all the suffragists, and that’s why I created the play Letters to Aunt Hattie. Harriet Forten Purvis and Charlotte Forten Grimké were free-born, affluent African Americans who, with their husbands, pushed for basic human rights for all.”
—Gilletta Gigi McGraw, Philadelphia artist and playwright
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