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Janice Shaw Crouse
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Marriage Matters for People and Pocketbooks - June 13, 2015
June 15, 2015
It'll be very succinct. Thank you. It's wonderful to be here and I'd like to express my thanks to the Ucoonans. This is an extraordinary conference, I attend probably 12 a year and this is so well organized, so gracious, so warm and welcoming to all of us, so thank you so much for this. I want to begin yes- I want to begin by telling you about a young man that I met on an airplane. I was flying from DC to Boston and Jason sat beside me. I […]
Janice Shaw Crouse
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The War on Women: Myth or Reality? - April 19, 2013
April 19, 2013
CROUSE: Thank you for coming out on this cold and wet day. Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” describes two neighbors who meet every spring to walk the fence dividing their property. After a cold hard winter, damage has to be assessed and repaired. In the year 2000, CWA published my assessment of a whole century of American women's well-being in gaining ground, a profile of American women in 20th century. This report presented a wide array of data series showing women's well-being in seven different areas: education, health, economics, and […]
Frances Willard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Oct. 1893
October 16, 1893
Beloved Comrades of the White Ribbon Army: WHEN we began the delicate, difficult, and dangerous operation of dissecting out the alcohol nerve from the body politic, we did not realize the intricacy of the undertaking nor the distances that must be traversed by the scalpel of investigation and research. In about seventy days from now, twenty years will have elapsed since the call of battle sounded its bugle note among the homes and hearts of Hillsboro, Ohio. We have all been refreshing our knowledge of those days by reading the […]
Frances Willard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women's National Council Triennial Meeting Address - February 22, 1891
February 22, 1891
Beloved Friends and Comrades in a Sacred Cause: "A difference of opinion on one question must not prevent us from working unitedly in those on which we can agree." These words from the opening address before the International Council convened in this auditorium three years ago were the key-note of a most tuneful chorus. The name of her who uttered words so harmonious is Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and it shall live forever in the annals of woman's heroic struggle up from sexhood into humanhood. Our friends have said that, as […]
Kirsten E Gillibrand
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Human Rights Campaign Speech - February 3, 2018
February 3, 2018
Thank you everybody. To Patty and Chris, thank you for the beautiful introduction. I am so honored to be here tonight with so many incredible leaders and fighters. I want to thank my friend and our leader, Chad Griffin, for his truly groundbreaking work that he's done at HRC. Chad has been defending LGBTQ rights since he was a teenager. His dedication should inspire all of us and remind us that no matter how long a road may be, if we keep fighting and never give up, we will make […]
Kirsten E Gillibrand
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote Remarks at the Social Mobility Summit - January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014
MS. SAWHILL: Good morning, everyone. Hope everyone is feeling bright and cheery this morning. It is sunny and a reasonable temperature again. I’m Belle Sawhill. I am a co-director of the Center for Children and Families here at Brookings, along with Ron Haskins. And we have invited a group of experts from around the country to join us today for the first annual Summit on Social Mobility in the United States. It was organized by colleague, Richard Reeves. And we’re really delighted to have so many wonderful experts here to […]
Tulsi Gabbard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
State Democratic Convention Speech - May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018
Aloha. Thank you so much. It's a privilege to be here to join all of you. Thank you all for taking the time to be here, but really taking the time every day to do the- the tough work that you're doing within our communities to serve Hawaii, to strengthen our party, and to make positive change. I want to thank all of the people and the many hands that have gone into making this convention possible, and I want to thank the hotel staff and workers for taking care […]
Tulsi Gabbard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Speech at the People's Summit - June 24, 2016
June 24, 2016
Aloha. What a beautiful crowd. I'm incredibly inspired and so thrilled to be here to join you today, to join Commissioner Garcia, Senator Turner, Donna Smith, Roseanne Domoro, Whiney, all of you who have worked so hard to make today possible and who are working even harder to lay out the path for how we can make sure we continue progress on all of these important issues. There's so much at stake as we look at the next five months before us, but also how we engage beyond that. We've […]
Tulsi Gabbard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Yoga Day Speech at the UN Headquarters - June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015
Respected leaders, honored guests, Namaste and aloha. As individuals and as a society, in order to have peace and happiness, we need wisdom and spiritual love. Three days ago, a man walked into a church in South Carolina and in cold blood gunned down nine people. Why? Because of ignorance and hate. For too long the world has witnessed the brutal terrorism of groups like ISIS. Why do such groups exist? Because of ignorance and hate. There's so much suffering caused by this ignorant and hate. It points to our […]
Debra Haaland
categories: Campaign Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
Netroots Nation Keynote Address – Aug. 3, 2018
August 3, 2018
Hello, Netroots Nation. [cheers] My name is Deb Haaland. I'm the Democratic nominee for New Mexico's first congressional district. I elected I will be the first Native American woman in Congress. [cheers] Thank you. Thank you. [cheers] I'm a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna and a thirty-fifth generation New Mexican. I'm a single mom to my beautiful queer daughter, a water protector, and I'm proud to be here. [cheers] I recognize that we are on indigenous land and I approach you with respect for the tribes whose homeland we […]