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Kamala Harris
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
National Partnership for Women and Families Gala - June 15, 2017
June 15, 2017
What a scene, this is fantastic, oh this is great. I wish everyone at the Capitol could be here. Judy Lightman was reminding me backstage that it must have been 20 years ago, I was writing- I was a young attorney writing these little checks to this organization that has grown to be this and it's an incredible sight to see and an incredible testament to everyone here. So I just want to start my comments by thanking you all for supporting the National Partnership. It is so incredibly important. […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women Unshackled - August 10, 2017
August 10, 2017
So good morning. So let's just talk about this in this context. It is a critical and an important issue, and you know I have spent as you heard in the introduction my career in law enforcement. You know my parents were active in the civil rights movement, my sister, Maya, and I joke we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full time marching and shouting, but I decided I wanted to be a prosecutor which many in my family thought was a curious decision you […]
Jane Addams
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The Communion of the Ballot – Nov. 24, 1912
November 24, 1912
Addams gave this keynote address before the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Philadelphia. Convention and friends of suffrage: When I tried to compose a title for this very important meeting this afternoon, I made three or four attempts and finally asked to have printed upon the program: "The Communion of the Ballot," wishing to express, if I might, that desire among all women who are seeking suffrage to come out into that larger light which knows no class, which knows no distinction and where all subjects, at least […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Response to Addresses at the Fifth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War - January 1930
January 1, 1930
RESPONSE Carrie Chapman Catt We have listened with understanding and sympathy to the words of these women from foreign countries, the unspeakable tragedies of the European nations and the threatened peril of the lands within the Western Hemisphere. The unspoken question, to which we must find an answer, is what are we going to do about it? Sympathetic words are not enough. Food to the hungry and clothes to the cold who have been robbed of every hope life offers are not enough. Even the utmost assistance, short of war, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Status Today of War vs. Peace - January 16,1928
January 18, 1928
THIRD CONFERENCE ON THE CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR The Status Today of War vs. Peace By Carrie Chapman Catt Ten years after the Great War we may solemnly inquire of events whether the civilized nations are drifting toward that much advertised “next war” or toward the certainties of perpetual peace. To the most casual observer it is evident that the advocates of peace are growing in number, that the various groups are more tolerant toward each other, that there is more friendliness between them, and that slowly but certainly […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Problem Stated - 1924
January 1, 1924
THE PROBLEM STATED “Carthage must be destroyed”, said Cato every day as he rose to address the Roman senate. Today we are faced by an enemy more cruel than Carthage, more lustful of power than Napoleon, more tyrannical than Prussianism, more bloodthirsty than Moloch, an enemy of which, like Cato, we should declare every day “it must be destroyed”, until we have finally extirpated it forever. If not destroyed, it will destroy us. I speak of war. War must be outlawed if humanity is to survive. I believe the thinking […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address at Rockford, Iowa - July 4, 1889
July 4, 1889
4th of July 1889 Rockford IA All the world is a stage and men and women players, says the poet. Then does it follow that the history of nations composes the plot of the world’s drama. It was 113 years ago today the curtain was [illegible] up on a new Nation. The ages had witnessed the incoming and outgoing of many a National tragedy. The birth and death of empires had been frequent. Like the swift course of a meteor, dynasties had climbed to the summit of power; empires had […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Men, Women, and War (New York Society of Ethical Culture) - 1925
January 1, 1925
1925 MEN, WOMEN, AND WAR* By Carrie Chapman Catt When one reads the casual reports of historians about ancient people, usually the historian speaks of them as men. He speaks as if the race were of one sex; he speaks of it as “he.” Consequently we have been trained to think that all the things in the world were brought into it by man. But from the modern investigations of scientists we learn that, on the contrary, women invented all those primitive industries which in later days have grown into […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
What is the Monroe Doctrine? (Fourth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War) - January 18, 1929
January 18, 1929
Reprinted from the Woman’s Journal, March, 1929. WHAT IS THE MONROE DOCTRINE? We Have Had the Monroe Doctrine for More Than a Century. We know Its Effect, But Who Knows What It Is? This Article Explains Why an Understanding Is Necessary to the World’s Peace Address By Carrie Chapman Catt Fourth Conference on Cause and Cure of War, Washington, D.C., January 1929 The psychology produced in the Western Hemisphere by the Monroe Doctrine, as it is accepted, unquestionably stirs ill instead of good will. In a visit to Latin America […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Opening Address at the Second Conference on the Cause and Cure of War - Dec. 6, 1926
December 6, 1926
OPENING ADDRESS OF MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT AT THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ON DECEMBER 6, 1926. It is the custom for the President to give a little opening address in which she shall make a sort of survey of what has happened and what she recommends to be considered by the organization. So it prepared a speech which would be a survey and a recommendation. We have had our report printed, our speeches have been heretofore printed, and the delegates […]