"Standing on the Shoulders", Women's Rights and Suffrage Anthem by Earth Mama

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1. Cecile Richards/Hillary Clinton

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Aminatou Sow
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Today is @cecilerichards’ last day as president of Planned Parenthood. #ThankYouCecile doesn't even begin to cover it. PP saved my life when I had less than $10 to my name. I will never forget it. Thank you for fighting for us. Thank you for making that good kind of trouble
8:28 AM · Apr 30, 2018

The speech is considered to be influential in the women's rights movement. Specifically, it became a key moment in the empowerment of women, and years later women around the world would recite Clinton's key phrases.

The speech was listed as number 35 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century (listed by rank).

In 2011, Clinton took a similar position on LGBT rights in a speech to the United Nations on International Human Rights Day, declaring "gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights."

In 2013, following Clinton's stint as U.S. Secretary of State, Clinton led a review at the Clinton Global Initiative of how women's rights have changed since her 1995 speech.

It concluded that progress had been made for girls in education and for women and girls in healthcare but that females around the world still suffered due to lack of political rights and security vulnerabilities.
In Clinton's words: "It’s a glass-half-filled kind of scenario."

On the twentieth anniversary of the speech in 2015 there were more retrospectives on it.

(a threatened man chimed in & showed his ignorance, )
Not everyone was enamored of it: publicly visible lawyer Bruce Fein said: “She made one statement in Beijing that wasn’t very profound — that women are human beings.”

http://womenyoushouldknow.net/inspired-illustration-feminism-work-pays-tribute-pioneers-moved-womens-history-forward/

Inspired Illustration, “FEMINISM AT WORK,” Pays Tribute To Pioneers Who Moved Women’s History Forward

“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” – Gloria Steinem

Scroll down page to review the women in the illustration




Thank you for your OP honoring so many many women who have broken barriers thru their relentless efforts.

Their never ending tenacity of moving forward against all odds, and to then lift others on their shoulders should be emphasized & never ever allowed to be silenced from history.

We move forward because of them, their committment to human rights across all spectrum.