The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • It’s August in Texas

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    Yikes! It is too hot today in Dallas for me to go on my afternoon walk. I will have to take a walk after dinner. Of course, I complain about the weather. But, soon, it will be cooler. Soon, summer will be over. I am reminded of a Shakespeare quote: “Summer’s lease hath all too…

  • Joy, like a pearl

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    James Lawson, the Civil Rights leader, read this Langston Hughes poem at John Lewis’ funeral services. I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom’s way, Where greed no longer saps the…

  • We will not be quiet

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    “Let all of the people of the USA determine that we will not be quiet as long as any child dies in the first year of life in the United States,” said James Lawson, Civil Rights leader, at John Lewis’ funeral service. “We will not be quiet as long as the largest poverty group in…

  • Celebrate women’s suffrage

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    Women won the right to vote 100 years ago in August 1920. Celebrate by wearing white. Suffragists often wore white dresses with yellow sashes. White represented purity of purpose, and yellow represented a new day dawning for women.

  • Trouble

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    “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble,” said John Lewis, the civil rights leader, who died July 17, 2020.

  • Do something

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    “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up,” said John Lewis. “You have to do something.” Lewis, a civil rights leader, died July 17, 2020.

  • We, the people

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    “It was we, the people,” declared Susan B. Anthony. “Not we, the white male citizens. Nor yet, we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed the Union….Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”

  • You can’t stop us

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    “Women weren’t given the vote,” concluded the PBS series on women’s suffrage. “We took it.” As Sojourner Truth said, “You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither.”

  • Why shouldn’t women vote?

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    During the summer of 1920, the anti-suffragettes offered plenty of reasons. “I would rather see my daughter in a coffin than at the polls,” one father exclaimed during floor debate in Little Rock. And, the liquor industry feared the “dry” ladies who want to enforce Prohibition, Elaine Weiss reports in her book The Woman’s Hour.…

  • Three kinds of patriots

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    “There are three kinds of patriots, two bad and one good,” said William Sloane Coffin. “The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country.” Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.