Denver Hands Off

The propaganda of political division gives the illusion that it’s possible to punish the opposite party and not your own. As if there are two Americas and we can target our enemies to hurt only them. It’s a damn shame it will take Trump hurting all of America for some to find out we were never separate groups in the first place. Quote by Melissa Nadia Viviana

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.

“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

“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

“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
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“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

You’re welcome to do your own research, as well.

It’s literally a quote from the first woman who ran for president. I meant it to quote her.

“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

“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
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“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
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“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

“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
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“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” - Mary Jackson

22/31 days of #womenshistory
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“The only limit to what we can achieve is the limit we place on ourselves.” - Sally Ride

21/31 days of #womenshistory
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“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

“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

“Hard times require furious dancing.” - Alice Walker

18/31 days of #womenshistory
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17/31 days of #womenshistory
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#translivesmatter

“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

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” - Jane Goodall

16/31 days of #womenshistory
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“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
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Also… beware, beware the #idesofmarch

“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
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13/31 days of #womenshistory
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#313day

“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

Can’t help but wonder if leadership’s confusion on what “asylum” means in the context of immigration and/or the desire to keep blaming mental illness for school, religious, or workplace violence has something to do with this.

So wait a little reverse psychology is all we needed to try?

That…that actually tracks.

12/31 days of #womenshistory
#wewillnotbeerased
#protectourhistory

“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