Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated that the first statues honoring women will be erected in New York City’s Central Park, saying, “It took far too long.”
“Statues are powerful things. When we cast figures in bronze, we immortalize their contributions to history,” Clinton tweeted Wednesday.
“It took far too long for Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to join Central Park’s 23 male statues, but I’m so glad we’re finally here,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee tweeted.
The city commission voted in favor of a monument honoring the activists on Monday, according to The Guardian.{mosads}
It will be dedicated in August 2020, about 100 years after women obtained the right to vote in the U.S.
Clinton has been outspoken on women’s rights, famously proclaiming at a United Nations conference in 1995 that “women’s rights are human rights.”