In evoking the battles at Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall -- and in selecting Evers, Blanco, and Rev. Leon to participate in the ceremony -- Obama was reminding Americans that the progress toward a better society is made primarily by people working together through social movements.

In this era, we can no longer afford for deliberation, defined as "leisureliness of movement or action; slowness" to define us as women.

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

Were we stand right now is with a President that has laid out a bold vision. But that cannot become real if we, those that chose him, are silent.