Whereas, on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women in the United States the right to vote; Whereas in recognition of this historic achievement, on February 10, 1921, the National Woman's Party presented to Congress a monument, commonly known as the Portrait Monument , in honor of the pioneers of the suffrage movement that won women the right to vote; Whereas the monument was accepted on behalf of Congress by the Joint Committee on the Library; Whereas, on February 15, 1921, the 101st anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, an unveiling ceremony was held in the rotunda of the Capitol; Whereas sculpted by Adelaide Johnson and originally referred to as the Memorial to the Pioneers of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement, the monument includes busts of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott, as well as an uncarved marble block as a reminder that the work of women gaining equality was not completed with the passage of the 19th amendment; Whereas the original monument also included an inscription that read: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, the three great destiny characters of the world whose spiritual import and historical significance transcend that of all others of any country or age. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the call of that first woman’s rights convention of 1848 initiated and Susan B. Anthony marshalling the latent forces through three generations down more than a half century of time guided the only fundamental universal uprising on our planet. The woman’s revolution. Principle not policy; justice, not favor; men, their rights and nothing more