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Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956) was a nurse, author and social activist from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She devoted her life to improving the profession of nursing. When she retired around the age of 50, she shifted her energies to women’s suffrage, leading several protests. Dock picketed the White House and was jailed on several occasions for militant suffrage activities.In 1917, Dock wrote “The Young are at the Gates” which was published in The Suffragist, a weekly newspaper created by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (later the National Woman’s Party):“…What is the potent spirit of youth? Is it not the spirit of revolt, of rebellion against senseless and useless and deadening things? Most of all, against injustice, which is of all stupid things the stupidest?Such thoughts come to one in looking over the field of the suffrage campaign and watching the pickets at the White House and at the Capitol, where sit the men who complacently enjoy the rights they deny to the women at t