[Brazilian Nursing Association: 70 years of struggle for life]

This work is about the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn), its origin, its expansion and projection based on its philosophy and highlighting its achievements from its origin in 1926 until today when its 70th anniversary is being celebrated. This work aims at reporting this institution history and narrating the support provided so that nursing may contribute decisively to the construction of a body of profession knowledge itself, the legal definition of professional practice, teaching regulamentation through its commissions. Methodology has been composed of bibliographic research and interviews with active professionals. It has been concluded that ABEn is stronger and stronger and aware of the way on how to achieve many other goals which will bear great conquests which will contribute for granting nursing power and space as a profession set to the human, therefore, to a better life, with more love, peace and social justice.