By Nancy Pelosi                       Minority Leader of the  House  Representatives

Today is the 167th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention — the first women’s rights convention in American history. Today, we honor the women that came before us. They toiled and suffered for to achieve the same rights as their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers. We would be kidding ourselves if we thought that fight was over. Whenever a woman gets paid less for the same job as a man, or is denied the right to make her own healthcare decisions, we know there is much more to fight for.

We’ve been waiting for too long to realize the dreams of the women of Seneca Falls. After Seneca Falls, it took 71 years for American women to gain the right to vote. One hundred and twenty five years passed before women were given control over their own bodies in Roe vs. Wade. Today, 167 years later, women still don’t get equal pay for equal work. There is a constant assault on women’s health care and discrimination is rampant. Let’s take this moment to reinvigorate our fight for equal rights.   In memory of those women who made it possible for me to sit here and send you this mesage as the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, I want to leave you with this quote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls, 1848 Let’s keep fighting,

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