Thank you for visiting the website of Williamson County Democratic Women. Throughout the site you will see colors and images of a sunflower against a clear blue sky. The sunflower symbolized the dawn of a new day for the early suffragists who fought for a woman’s right to vote. The WCDW have adopted it as our symbol to honor their work and inspire our own.

In the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence we read, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all (people) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among (people), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

On Tuesday, November 4 we have a chance to alter our government.

The next months will find us taking every opportunity to register voters and elect candidates who are dedicated to building up this great country. Together we will find ways to make good health care affordable, to promote economic prosperity, to establish civil rights and justice, to care for the environment, and to create a place of security. We will accomplish these noble tasks because we believe in education and hard work. We believe in looking out for one another.

We hope you will join us. “And we’ll grow kindness in our hearts for all the strangers among us until there are no strangers anymore.” (Patty Griffin, musician)

The Woman’s Suffrage Memorial in Knoxville by sculptor Alan LeQuire honors three Tennessee suffragists: Lizzie Crozier French of Knoxville, Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville, and Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of Memphis.