It is through rebellion that change is made. According to Oscar Wilde, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Reviewing America’s journey from the up and coming country to the established yet still changing nation we are today, Wilde definitely makes a strong claim that these changes are driven with disobedience. Without civil disobedience, many social progressions such as women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Movement, and the LGBT movements would not have brought success. In fact, without this sense of rebellion, women would not be voting, Martin Luther King Jr. would not have had his dream, and queer Americans would not have the right to marry. Overall, America: “Land of the Free” would still be segregated in many ways. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich once said, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” It is taking a stand and disobeying the normal or refusing to conform that makes a leader well-known and successful. After all, we never hear about the lady that always does everything she is told and never argues. We hear about the wonderful activists that made a change for the future of women and equal rights. Women’s rights in particular called for much disobedience and rebellion to obtain. From voting rights to equal pay, women have a lot to fight for. This “fight” calls for rebellion to make a change. Women’s rights activists such as