“We need not expect the concessions demanded by women will be peaceably granted; there will be a long moral warfare before the citadel yields. In the meantime, let us take possession of the outposts…All great reforms are gradual. Fear not any attempt to frown down the revolution already commenced; nothing is more fertile aid of reform, than any attempt to check it; work on!
From Matilda Joslyn Gage’s speech at third Women’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, 1852
172 years ago.
Like building a cathedral…