#unfortunately relevant a century later – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

Beauty in the apertures of pain

I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.

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“Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916.” One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who became a martyr to the suffrage movement following her death from anemia while campaigning for the 19th Amendment. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

(via shorpy)

Appropriate for today and my hearting heart.

#suffrage #1910s #gender equality #unfortunately relevant a century later