Gardner, Bennet introduce bill for sculpture commemorating women’s suffrage

    Colorado U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner (R) and Michael Bennet (D) introduced legislation June 4 to authorize Colorado artist Jane DeDecker to install her Every Word We Utter sculpture in Washington, D.C.
    The sculpture would be the first outdoor monument to commemorate the women’s suffrage movement and would feature Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells.
    “On the 100th anniversary of the Senate passing the 19th Amendment, I am honored to join Sen. Bennet in commemorating the women’s suffrage movement with its first outdoor monument,” Gardner said. “This sculpture will pay homage to the generations of women whose determination granted women the right to vote.”
    “I see the suffragists as founders in exactly the same way as any of the people who wrote the Constitution — they challenged Americans to make our country what it ought to be. Monuments across our nation’s capital commemorate the founders of our country, and it’s time we pay tribute to the suffragists accordingly,” Bennet said. “One hundred years after Congress passed the 19th Amendment, I can’t think of a more fitting way to commemorate the powerful work of the brave pioneers who made women’s suffrage a reality than with the first outdoor monument in their honor.”
    “‘Every word we utter, every act we perform, waft unto innumerable circles beyond.’ The work of which Stanton spoke is not yet done,” DeDecker said.

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