12 Beautiful Photos Of Women, And The Powerful Reasons They March
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Across the country (and world) women and their allies answered President Donald Trump’s inauguration with a decisive call to action.
The Women’s March on Washington was a peaceful, rousing rally and then march ― one that got so large that many marchers never even made it onto the official route. The Huffington Post spoke with 13 women of different ages, sexual identities, ethnicities and religious identities, who came to downtown D.C. on Saturday Jan. 21.
Here’s why 12 women (and one wonderfully eloquent 8-year-old girl) joined the Women’s March on Washington:
“I marched from Selma to Montgomery, and I truly believe in the energy and the spirit of mass protest.” ―Susan, 83
“Women’s lives are under attack, so we’ve gotta fight back. [As] a veteran of Act Up, [I’ve] been doing this kind of activism for over two decades.” ―Betsy Andrews, 53
“The rhetoric of the past election season has been so negative, and a lot of hate speech has been normalized in our society, and I’m not OK with that. I don’t want to be silenced, and I don’t want other people to feel like this is OK.” ―Joan Kao, 21
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