Keynote Address

Ruby Bridges Hall
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Address at the Clinton School of Public Service - Sept. 20, 2011
September 20, 2011
After that introduction that Spirit [Trickey] gave, I'm sitting there thinking, “Who in the world is she talking about?” I'd like to first thank Dean Rutherford and Nicolai for extending this invitation for me to come and share my story with you. I am deeply honored and very appreciative. Thank you so much. And thank all of you for coming out tonight to listen to what I have to say. Watching that film…. I'm always asked, “What do you think when you see that footage? What comes to mind?” And […]
Stephanie Schriock
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Remarks at the National Press Club - Sept. 18, 2018
September 18, 2018
Good afternoon. My goodness. Before I start, I just want to thank the founder and chair of our board of EMILY's List, Ellen Malcolm, for being here today. We often think of this moment – and you're gonna hear a little bit about this as the history-making moment – but none of this happens immediately. We all stand upon the shoulders of giants who came before us, and those shoulders I stand upon are Ellen Malcolm's shoulders. So thank you for being here today. And thank you so much for […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Presidential Address at the 9th IWSA Congress - May 14, 1923
May 14, 1922
PART FIRST. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance is indeed grateful to the Government of Italy and to its citizens for the cordial welcome we have received. Our Congress represents the world's movement among women, which demands the repeal of antiquated so-called "woman laws" and customs, and the substitution therefore of a modern civilized recognition of the fact that a woman is a human being — a female human with the same brain and conscience, strength or weakness, aspiration or indifference, as a male human. Our movement is old. The oldest […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Presidential Address at the 3rd IWSA Conference - Aug. 8, 1906
August 8, 1906
History In 1902, the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, invited all National woman suffrage societies which existed at that date, to send an accredited delegate to attend a mass meeting which should be held in Washington D. C., to consider the feasibility of organizing an International Woman Suffrage Association. This meeting was held in February, and six national suffrage associations were represented, namely: Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and the United States of America. Australia had no national association, but sent a delegate, several of the State societies contributing to […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Address at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Fifth Conference and First Quinquennial - April 26, 1909
April 26, 1909
(Stenographic Report.) On a June day, in 1904, the delegated representatives of seven National Woman Suffrage Associations met in a little hall in Berlin. They were there to discuss the practicability of completing a proposed International Union. At that date there were in all the world only ten countries in which Woman Suffrage Organisations could be found. Those of you who were present will well remember the doubt and the misgivings which characterised our deliberations. The doubting delegates questioned whether the times were yet ripe for this radical step; already […]
Cecile Richards
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Address at Brown University - May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017
Thank you. Thank you, Shelley, for your bravery and your feistiness and for telling your story. It's been really incredible in my ten years at Planned Parenthood. If I said one thing has changed is that women are coming out of the shadows like never before.. And it's women like Shelley, it's young women who aren't embarrassed and aren't stigmatized about telling their own stories. It's women editors of Cosmo and Teen Vogue that are now putting stories about abortion and reproductive healthcare right on the front pages. It folks […]
Gloria Steinem
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Thinking in Public in a Networked World – March 28, 2016
March 28, 2016
Steinem delivered this Presidential Colloquium at her alma mater. I have to say that in this hall, I will always be an 18- or 19- or 20-year-old person. We used to have chapel once a week. You don't remember those days, but you had to be here at something like eight in the morning. I was always in my pajamas with a slicker over it. That was one person who's still here with me. Tap dancing on this stage also at a Rally Day Show was another person. So I […]
Michelle Obama
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Keynote Address at Young African Women Leaders Forum - June 22, 2011
June 22, 2011
Thank you. Thank you so much. It is such a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you today. I want to start by thanking Graca Machel for that just gracious, kind introduction. It is overwhelming. And I want to thank her for her lifetime of service as a champion for women and children. And from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for all of the kindness and generosity that you have shown my family for our visit here. Thank you so much. […]
Elaine Weiss
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The Woman's Hour (MLS Speech) - Feb. 14, 2020
February 14, 2020
So delighted to be here in this special place on this Historic Day. (STRUCK) It's a thrill for me to help kick off Iowa's centennial commemorations here at the Carrie Catt Center for Women and Politics. Historic day in many ways--all of them connected to your commemoration of the 19th Amend and your theme of Hard Won, Not Done. Firstly, today is the birthday of Frederick Douglass--the great abolition and civil rights leader --and the great champion of woman's suffrage. FD chose Feb 14 as his b'day--because there were no […]
Stephanie Schriock
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at the Clinton School of Public Service - Oct. 5, 2015
October 5, 2015
Thank you so much. Thank you for that great introduction. As I was listening, I was having a moment flashing back to being the speaker of the Mankato State Student Association, trying to learn Robert's Rules of Order. I was having a little moment back there, so thank you for sharing that story. And it's great to be here today. Thank you so much for having me. I was thinking on my way in about the first time I arrived to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was here then to work […]