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Jeanne Shaheen
categories: Eulogy, Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Remembering Geraldine Ferraro - March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, paid tribute to the life of Geraldine Ferraro in a speech on the Senate floor. Madam President, I know we are about to recess, but I wish to take a minute or two to add my voice to all the women in the Senate who have been here today and thank the Presiding Officer for her leadership for encouraging us to honor Geraldine Ferraro. I remember being on the floor of the 1984 Democratic Convention when she gave her acceptance speech for the Vice […]
Colleen Hanabusa
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Floor Speech in Remembrance of Senator Daniel K. Inouye- Dec. 19, 2012
December 19, 2012
Thank you and thank you to my colleagues from Hawaii for doing this. Mister Speaker, I rise today in support the resolution 839 which relates to the death the honorable Daniel K. Inouye, senator from the state of Hawaii. I know that as the most senior member of the United States Senate, as the appropriations chair and as a true war hero, Sen. Inouye will be remembered in Washington and Hawaii and across the nation. Tomorrow he will be given one of the highest honors of anyone in this country […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Eulogy to Susan B. Anthony - March 15, 1906
March 15, 1906
Following is the full text transcript of Anna Howard Shaw's Eulogy to Susan B. Anthony speech, delivered at Rochester, New York - March 15, 1906. Your flags at half-mast tell of a nation's loss, but there are no symbols and no words which can tell the love and sorrow which fill our hearts. And yet out of the depths of our grief arise feelings of truest gratitude for the beauty, the tenderness, the nobility of example, of our peerless leader's life. There is no death for such as she. There […]
Joyce Banda
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Speech at Nelson Mandela's Burial - Dec. 15, 2013
December 15, 2013
Your Excellency President Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; Mama Graca Machel; Mama Winnie Madikizela- Mandela Your Royal Highness Prince Charles Your Royal Highness Prince Albert of Monaco Your Royal Highness King of Lesotho The Mandela Family; Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government Members of the Diplomatic Corps Member of the Clergy Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. It is with a deep sense of humility that I accepted to come and be part of this event today. I stand before you to join you, the people of […]