The pains taken by abolitionists, and suffragettes, and civil rights marchers, and marriage equality advocates brought America's core truth to light: that all people are created equal.
But you know that they had the New York Times behind them. I think was a huge part of it but yeah, it just felt like like the suffragettes, like make a film about this. This is really amazing.
These days a woman choosing not to change her name to match her husband’s after marriage has long been a norm. The first recorded case is widely believed to be an American suffragette called Lucy Stone.
And to be one of those suffragettes all in white and to feel part of that and the emotion that was involved around that. So I'd like to be that. Any battle ever for the other one.
They can't leap in front of the king's horse like a suffragette or stage a sit-in like a civil rights activist or go on a Salt March to defy their colonial oppressors like Mahatma Gandhi.
But what happens is, is that the, the, I think his name's Horace's uncle is like, We need to take a stand on these suffragettes, and I think we're going to be anti.
In just one night in November 1913, suffragettes set fire to a mansion, burned down a pavilion at a London tennis club, and blew up a greenhouse, destroying a $50,000 cactus collection.
Caroline Criado Perez a feminist campaigner created an online petition for a suffragette statue on her phone while out running with her dog Technology can help the sculptors too.