She Fought for Women She Would Never Meet - Fact 17

THE WOMAN PROJECT — Woman Fact 17

Ladies, where would we be this day, were it not for the many women generations past that had fought hard battles everyday to make the worls we live in, a better place, a place of equal opportunity, regardless of race colour or creed. It was a woman, not a man. Today, we see woman in the priestwood, many CEO's are women, many women are business owners in the toughest of industries. Just being a woman makes all the difference. God was good when He chose a partner for Adam, because He knew what her worth would be. She is not perfect, but she stands tall, because she endures, because she is WOMAN!

In 1848, roughly 300 people gathered in a small New York town and dared to write down a demand most of the country thought was insane: that women deserved to vote.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized that gathering, the Seneca Falls Convention, and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of demands so radical for its time that even close allies were shocked by it. It took over 70 more years, and generations of women after them, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, before the 19th Amendment finally passed in 1920. Many of these women never lived to see it. They fought anyway.

Mary Church Terrell fought that battle carrying "two obstacles," in her own words, both her sex and her race, and kept organizing regardless. Emmeline Pankhurst, leading the suffragettes in Britain, was arrested again and again and never stopped. None of them fought so that their own generation alone could vote. They fought for women they would never meet.

Here's what we actually owe them: not just gratitude, but use. Every vote cast, every account opened in her own name, every no said out loud without needing anyone's permission, is the ordinary, everyday outcome of what they risked everything for. The debt isn't paid by remembering them once a year. It's paid by actually living the freedom they never got to have.

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What is one freedom you use without thinking about it, that a woman before you had to fight, risk, or even die for?