Keynote Address

Cecile Richards
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
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
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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 […]
Stephanie Schriock
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Address at the 2019 We Are EMILY Gala - April 4, 2019
April 4, 2019
Oh my gosh – thank you so much. I think you can put the Kleenex away for a little bit, but I make no promises. Okay, doesn't it just feel great to be celebrating? Just a little bit? Cuz I know, I know how we felt. I mean, let's face it – we have seen the worst happen. Well, we just won, so let's embrace this moment. Let's celebrate this! Now, EMILY's List asked a lot of you in 2018 and you delivered. We targeted 1600 state and local races, […]
María Teresa Kumar
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Moving Forward in An Inclusive America - March 26, 2019
March 26, 2019
Kumar was the recipient of Austin College's 2019 Posey Leadership Award. Apologies. I just want to make sure that I am respectful of your time. First of all, Antonio, that was an incredible introduction. I had the opportunity to speak to Antonio before coming here and I have to say that his energy, I believe, exemplifies Austin College. He is energized to change the world and he deeply believes in the power of international travel, to seed his ideas, to grow. But he wants to give back as a medical […]
Nikki Haley
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Address at SBA List Campaign for Life Gala - June 3, 2019
June 3, 2019
Thank you so much. What a great room. Thank you so much. Thank you, Marjorie, for your commitment, strength and heart. You are an inspiration to so many and we all appreciate your efforts. And thank you to everyone in this room. I am so grateful to you not just for being here tonight but for showing up and fighting every single day. Each of you is doing something extraordinary—you're saving lives. So thank you. The pro-life movement is a noble cause. It's also a thankless cause. That's because the […]
S.E. Cupp
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Communications and Civility in Our Democracy - Sept. 5, 2019
September 5, 2019
Hello. Thanks for having me. This is a really cool thing that you guys are doing, this summit [Iowa State University's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication's 2019 Summit: Communications and Civility in Our Democracy]. It's really important to have these kinds of discussions about media, communications, politics, all of that, and I'm really impressed with this turnout. Thank you. You guys are really into politics here. [audience laughing] It's almost as if there's a big political event on Monday, February 3, 2020, in this state. I saw a headline […]
Diane Nash
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address to the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice - August 25, 1961
August 25, 1961
I see no alternative but that this text must be a personal interpretation of my own experience within the region known as "Dixie." My participation in the movement began in February, 1960, with the lunch counter "sit-ins." I was then a student at Fisk University, but several months ago I interrupted my schoolwork for a year in order to work full time with the movement. My occupation at present is coordinating secretary for the Nashville Nonviolent Movement. I should not with to infer that I speak for the southern movement, […]