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TroyD

(4,551 posts) Sun Aug 26, 2012, 04:24 PM Aug 2012

ON THIS DAY 92 YEARS AGO: Women win the right to vote when the 19th Amendment is certified

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ON THIS DAY 92 YEARS AGO: Women win the right to vote when the 19th Amendment is certified (Original Post) TroyD Aug 2012 OP

and also ... CountAllVotes Aug 2012 #1

In 1980 I marched up Fifth Avenue with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug to celebrate no_hypocrisy Aug 2012 #2

92 years is the blink of an eye in human history. Rights are not something you "win." ancianita Aug 2012 #3

CountAllVotes

(20,878 posts)

1. and also ...

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Sun Aug 26, 2012, 04:26 PM

Aug 2012

Both women AND American Indians became CITIZENS of the United States!

no_hypocrisy

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2. In 1980 I marched up Fifth Avenue with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug to celebrate

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Sun Aug 26, 2012, 04:28 PM

Aug 2012

the 60th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage. We all were on the platform behind the NY Public Library for speeches after the March. Those were the days . . . . .

ancianita

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3. 92 years is the blink of an eye in human history. Rights are not something you "win."

Reply to TroyD (Original post)

Sun Aug 26, 2012, 04:35 PM

Aug 2012

A full 132 years after "men" ratified their own citizenship, they finally decide the other half of the country should be citizens, too? Not impressive. If women were gun-toters and threatened war over the whole thing, men would have taken women more seriously, politically. Then again, Lord knows what men did when the Indians fought for their 'rights.'

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