"Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage. It took presidential action to make things official--a Lincoln to free the slaves, a Wilson to support the women's suffrage amendment, a Lyndon Johnson to finish the fight against Jim Crow--but without the voices from afar, there would have been no chorus of liberty. The lesson: The work of reformers--long, hard, almost unimaginably difficult work--can lead to progress and a broader understanding of who is included in the phrase "We, the People" that opened the Preamble of the Constitution. And that work unfolds still."