Dr. Kristoffer Smemo, History Professor at the University of Washington in St. Louis
What Black Lives Matter is confronting is also opening up new possibilities for quite profound change in the United States.
Laura Kumin, author of All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote
If we only honor the big names and the loud women, we’re really missing what suffrage was all about – which is rights for all women.
Dr. Johnathan Wharton
Many Americans don’t even realize America is full of so many paradoxes, but they are what makes America complicated but wonderful in diversity.
Attorney Chris Richardson
America has its own problems but is making progress–taking one step backwards and two steps forward.
Brenda Jones, author of Queens of the Resistance
For all of those individuals who are similarly interested in changing, shaping, having a dynamic impact on America, politics is the place to do it.
Ambassador Joel Danies
You don’t need to treat blacks and women special, just as equals.
Laura Kumin, author of All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote
My takeaway from suffrage is that…it takes those who are willing to be on the front lines and to be arrested and to picket; but it also takes those who are willing to do really hard work, but unseen work.