My family history is filled with men who have served this country in the name of freedom, beginning with an ancestor who fought in the war of independence and was scalped. I don't remember him but I remember my grandfather and uncle. My grandfather fought for freedom in the trenches in Europe during the great war. My uncle returns to Europe to fight against the free Europe under the control of Adolph Hitler and its impious extermination camps. I have the honour my ancestors who served freedom. At school, I learned how important their service was due to the backup of my freedom. I have learned from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and the sons of liberty. In adulthood, however, when I think about my personal liberties that I appreciate every day, I think women who fought peacefully until these freedoms that have been written on the Declaration of independence and the Constitution has become a reality for me.
I liked my grandfather and his uncle and don't forget the personal stories that they have suffered in the two world wars. Sometimes, however, freedoms can be achieved without recourse to war, when a person lives in a democracy. I would like to quote some of the women who fought peacefully from 1776 until 1920 to ensure precious freedoms so important for the founders to become a reality for mothers Foundation also. These are: freedom to own property, receive education of first class, working in my chosen profession and receive equal pay for equal work, protect my children from child labour and domestic violence, make decisions about sending our sons in the war and have no taxation without representation. I have all these freedoms because a group of women was prepared to be harassment, imprisonment and torture, ridicule, and put on a red list and risk even for their own safety without retaliation to ensure freedom from slavery and the right to vote.
Therefore, I would like to honour some of the women enrolled in Suffrage of the chronology of the woman, http://dpsinfo.com.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked in the underground railway and co-founded the Organization of women's Suffrage.
Susan b. Anthony - co-founder of the women's Suffrage Movement. She is arrested for the election of 1872 and had the bail of $1,000. Despite an eloquent plea, it was deprived of a trial jury and convicted of the crime of voting. She received a fine of $100.
Harriet Tubman - also known as Moses of her people. A risked his life and was severely beaten several times for leading his fellow slaves in the promised land. After the end of slavery, she lived in New York and continued to work for the suffrage of women and civil rights.
Jane Addams - pacifist founder of Hull House, activist and Vice President of the Organization of women's Suffrage. It was put on the red list in the 1920s because of his efforts to relieve hunger in Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Soviet Union. She won the Nobel Prize in peace in 1933.
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were suffragettes who were arrested for protesting from the White House on the night of terror in November 1917. They were imprisoned and tortured for two weeks up to what a journalist written on their fate and they were released.
Margaret Sanger was an author of sexual education and birth control advocate female. She opened the 1st clinical birth control for women in Brooklyn, New York in October 1916. The clinic was closed ten days later, but Ms. Sanger has kept the case in the courts of up to a decision of the Federal Court allowed him to open the second clinic in New York in 1917.
These women were left in the history books that I studied when I went to school in the 1960s. I have always taken my freedoms to vote, own property, receive an education, working in the career of my choice for granted. Like many others I was taught that those freedoms were earned by the bravery of the men who wrote the Declaration of independence and the Constitution so that hundreds of thousands of others who died on the battlefield in all the wars since 1776. I am grateful to all these men to protect the democratic Government that we are not in this country, but I am grateful there are those who have really understood the meaning of democracy is rule by the people and were willing to risk "their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" in a peaceful demonstration to ensure that all persons have a part of this Government.
Brenda Duffey author and peace activist
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