[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT

  (Mrs. DEMINGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. DEMINGS. Madam Speaker, America has always been a work in 
progress, and, therefore, we always have the opportunity to make our 
democracy better, stronger, when we simply do the right thing.
  The Declaration of Independence may have said that ``all men are 
created equal,'' but it took a brave group of Americans to say that it 
should really be ``all people.'' If the law applies to each of us 
equally, then the right to vote must always be equal.
  The women who fought for their right to vote weren't in it to make 
friends. They were mocked and beaten, called extremists, told to slow 
down, told that good things would come if they simply waited. But, 
nevertheless, they persisted.
  Today, on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment passed in the 
House, let's be inspired by this group of women who took the hard fight 
and did the right thing, because they knew our democracy would be 
stronger and better for it.

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