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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Speeches
The Humanness of Women - c. 1909-1910
January 1, 1910
Gilman gave this speech several times in New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut from 1909-1910. A woman by the river's brim,A wife and servant is to him­ And she is nothing more. WE HAVE made mistakes, as old as humanity, about the world, and about women. First, as to the world: This we have assumed to be a general battlefield for men to struggle in; a place for free competition; full of innumerable persons whose natural mode of life was to struggle for existence with one another. This is […]
Leonora O’Reilly
Speeches
Peace - June 9, 1915
June 9, 1915
O'Reilly delivered this report from the International Congress of Women, held at The Hague, Holland, on April 28-30, 1915, to the Fifth Biennial Convention of the National Women's Trade Union of America. When on April 1st I received a telegram from our National office saying, "By vote of the National Executive Board you are earnestly urged to represent League at Peace Conference, The Hague. Steamer sails April 13th." I thought some one was playing a practical joke on yours truly. My reply, however, to the call was, as nearly as […]
Jeannette Rankin
Speeches
"Woman Suffrage" - Jan. 10, 1918
January 10, 1918
Mr. Speaker, we are facing today a question of political evolution. International circumstances have forced this question to an issue. Our country is in a state of war. The Nation has had a terrible shock. The result has been a sudden change in our national consciousness. The things we have for years been taking for granted are suddenly assuming a new significance for us. We as a Nation were born in a land of unparalleled resources, of vast acreage of fertile soil, of minerals, of coal, oil, gas, of timber, […]
Mary McLeod Bethune
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
"A Philosophy of Education for Negro Girls" - 1920
January 1, 1920
For the past seventy years the Negro has experienced various degrees of freedom. That which was given him in the early years of emancipation was more genuine and perhaps more benign that than which today he must take. For today he must free himself by reason of his ability and by merit, and by whatever trust and confidence may be found in himself. A great deal of this new freedom rests upon the type of education which the Negro woman will receive. Early emancipation did not concern itself with giving […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Statement of the Treatment... Received at the Hands of... [a] Ticket Agent at Dover, Del. - 13 October 1920
October 13, 1920
STATEMENT OF THE TREATMENT RECEIVED BY MARY CHURCH TERRELL AT THE HANDS OF HOWARD WEST, TICKET AGENT AT DOVER, DEL., OCTOBER 13, 1920. Permit me to state the facts concerning the manner in which I was treated by Howard West, ticket agent, at Dover, Del., Wednesday October 13, 1920. By mistake I reached Dover an hour earlier than Mr. Alfred Raikes, who was to meet me expected me. Since he was not at the station, I went into the telephone booth to phone to him. Unfortunately, I looked into the […]
Nina Evans Allender
categories: Historical Print, Political Ads
"Susan B. Anthony to the Women of Today" - 1923
January 1, 1923
Source: Allender, N. (1923) Susan B. Anthony to the women of today: "Everything but the vote is still to be won" / Allender., 1923. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020635501/. Transcription, left to right: "Vote, Vote" "Bill of Rights"
Shirley Chisholm
categories: Political Ads, Radio
No Funds to Department of Defense - 1972
January 1, 1972
NARRATOR: Shirley Chisholm comes from an urban ghetto and is what all the other candidates for president can only talk about. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM: My significance is not that I am the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, but that I won public office without selling out to anyone. I intend to vote on on every money bill that comes to the floor of the House of the Representatives that provides any funds for the Department of Defense. Until our values and our priorities have been turned right […]
Alva Myrdal
Speeches
Disarmament, Technology and the Growth in Violence - Dec. 11, 1982
December 11, 1982
Alva Myrdal's Nobel lecture Mr. Chairman, Honored guests: In the first place it is my obvious and at the same time most pleasant duty to express my gratitude for the honor that has been accorded me by the award of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize. May I then mention that I shall deal not only with the general subject of disarmament, but I shall also direct the attention to the connection between armament problems and the headlong on-rush of technology and the growth in violence. We must never forget the […]
Margaret Chase Smith
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Westbrook Junior College - June 15, 1983
June 25, 1953
You young women are on the threshold of the finest years of your life. Make the best of those years, not only for yourselves but for your families, your friends, and your country as well. Make better use of those years than has the generation preceding you. Give the young women who follow you a heritage of peace instead of the world of suspicion, aggression, treason, character assassination and moral delinquency that has been thrust upon you by the older generation that has preceded you. Show them the way to […]
Haunani-Kay Trask
Speeches
Hawaiians Do Not Come from Adam and Eve – Nov. 30, 1985
November 30, 1985
Trask gave this speech at a conference on Hawaiian sovereignty in Honolulu. I greet you today as a Native Hawaiian—one of the world’s endangered Indigenous people—who is committed to the survival of my race. I am a member of the movement for Hawaiian independence, and I am here to discuss the liberation of my people. How do I show our people that they cannot be both American and Hawaiian? Because that is an impossibility. Make no mistake about it: you cannot be American and be Hawaiian. To be American is […]