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Say gay. Love is love. Read banned books. Teach all history. A spark of rebellion is all it takes to defy the night. Being kind is free.
Denver Hands Off
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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We have to stop dividing our problems into “left and right" and start seeing our problems like “top vs bottom.”

737 billionaires in the U.S. have a combined wealth of 5.5 trillion. And they funneled it out of the middle class.

Then Trump keeps us fighting with each other while they steal more.
January 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.” - Marsha P. Johnson

31/31 days of #womenshistory
#transdayofvisibility
#protectourhistory
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.” - Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD

30/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
#protectourrights
March 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.” - Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

29/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
#protectourrights
March 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“I am tired of listening to speakers who talk in generalities. What we are here for is to decide whether or not to strike.” - Clara Lemlich

28/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
#protectourrights
March 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?” - Victoria Woodhull

27/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourrights
March 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Give the world the best you’ve got. And you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” - Hedy Lamarr

26/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.” - Gloria Steinem

Happy birthday to her and Aretha Franklin

25/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.” - Aretha Franklin

24/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
#protectourrights
March 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“I wonder whether the tiny atoms and nuclei, or the mathematical symbols, or the DNA molecules have any preference for either masculine or feminine treatment” - Chien-Shiung Wu 

23/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” - Mary Jackson

22/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“The only limit to what we can achieve is the limit we place on ourselves.” - Sally Ride

21/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” — Sarah Moore Grimké

In addition to sharing a given name, we share a birthday and a philosophy.

20/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
March 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
March 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Hard times require furious dancing.” - Alice Walker

18/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Do not consider whether what I say is a young man speaking, but whether my discussion with you is that of a man of understanding.” - Dr. James Barry, aka Margaret Ann Bulkley, an Irish woman who “reinvented herself” to enter university and held the second highest medical office in the British Army
March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” - Jane Goodall

16/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Women belong in all places where decisions are made.” - Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Happy birthday, RBG. I didn’t know how to pick just one quote today.

15/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourpeace
Also… beware, beware the #idesofmarch
March 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” - Shirley Chisholm, who would not have voted for this spending bill

14/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.” - Grace Lee Boggs
March 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
March 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” - Amelia Earhart

“The air is only the place free from prejudice.” - Bessie Coleman

11/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory
March 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“We was the fools, and he was the wise men; but we wasn’t good enough to go down the high road in the broad daylight.” - Harriet Tubman (b. March 1822, d. March 10, 1913)

10/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
March 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Every minute [is] a chance to change the world…” - Dolores Huerta

9/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#unitedfarmworkers
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM