Crystal Eastman Speech Now We Can Begin (Crystal Eastman, 1920 what tasks remain after the vote for women was won) “Most women will agree that August 23, (1920) the day when the Tennessee legislature finally enacted the Federal suffrage amendment, is a day to begin with, not a day to end with. Men are saying perhaps ‘Thank God, this everlasting woman's fight is over!’ But women, if I know them, are saying, ‘Now at last we can begin.’ In fighting for the right to vote most women have tried to be either non-committal or thoroughly respectable on every other subject. Now they can say what they are really after; and what they are after, in common with all the rest of the struggling world, is freedom.” . One small step for woman occurred that day, and struggle to sameness has existed ever since. Let no man or woman be frustrated of their purpose, let no parent or child be ripped of their own wholistic self-determination. In the 1920s our country was waking up to what freedom was, but I see it not just as woman’s rights awakening but a human awakening to how much we needed to grow and ever since then what trajectory would be taken by human and animal-kind on this planet. We won in court yesterday! But it was merely one battle in the unjust war we face on where our human rights are heading. On what freedom is. My hope is that although everything we are seeing seems as though to point to a hopelessness of mankind, we instead unite together to change our trajectory back to a people who are kind and good to one another and the survival of a peaceful and free humanity. And never to give up in every daily choice we make towards that world. 📸 by @yo_ernie Cosplay is 1920s Velma Kelly/Wonder Woman by @wonderwomanisreal #flapper #gatsby #greatgatsby #1920s #periodcosplay #historicalcostume #1920swonderwoman #velmakelly #velmakellycosplay #velmakellywonderwoman #dianaprince #speakeasy (at Chicago the Musical on Broadway)
