The Silent Sentinels were a live tweet to the nation. Their banners were most often under one hundred and forty characters. However the tweet was not the point. The point was the point. Non- enfranchised women standing with their backs to the Commander in Chief, the White House and by default, the American flag were giving witness to an injustice was the point.

Brilliant strategist, always seeing the big picture and often not even stopping to explain, Alice knew that contrast of all women on Monday and no women on Tuesday was a human banner demonstrating inequality. When asked, she said, “one half of the people have not participated in choosing the ruler who is being installed.”

Alice simply knew the cause, the effect and the differential. All masterfully played. The worse things got, the more women showed up for her. And make no mistake, it was for her.