As I walked on a tour of London, we traced the steps of early suffragist Emily Pankhurst. Many of the buildings in which she had lived, fought and used the resources to make gains for women, are gone.
They have been remodeled, torn down, burned down and abandoned. This really stuck out to me.
No matter how badly a building can be burned, remolded or have whatever happened to them they are still the places where change happened.
Those places where Emily and her sisters walked and worked can always be built upon but the progress the original structures made will always be there. While the Pankhurst sisters were creating change in their environment in that time nothing else could be built there until they left.
When you create change, it will forever be created.
It reminds me of the Civil Rights movement.
No matter how many houses and places where Dr. King lived are abandoned they will always be the place that facilitated change for him, and me.
Revolution starts in some place. That place could be in someone's basement, mind, a coffee shop; all that matters is that it started and they can never be taken away.
As we walked through South London I wondered if those individuals knew where they were, the heart of the Women's Movement.
Their steps were only taken there because of what someone else did.
I want to make memorable steps.
