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Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
War or Peace? - Nov. 12, 1923
November 12, 1923
I have long believed that when peace really comes to the world, that the Jewish people, men and women, are going to have a tremendous place in that great movement. It is because I believe that so sincerely that I am pleased that l may have the opportunity of addressing the Council of Jewish Women, tonight. I want to talk about the great question as it stands before us, today. The gravest question in all the world is, How may we attain and how may we maintain peace? I say […]
Jane Addams
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A Modern Lear - 3 September 1895
September 3, 1895
This speech was first delivered in 1895 at the Social Economics Conference in Chicago, IL, but was delivered many times from 1895 to 1897. It was eventually published as a magazine article in 1912. Those of us who lived in Chicago during the summer of 1894 were confronted by a drama which epitomized and, at the same time, challenged the code of social ethics under which we live, for a quick series of unusual events had dispelled the good nature which in happier times envelopes the ugliness of the industrial […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Nation Calls - March 24, 1919
March 24, 1919
Catt's presidential address at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in 1919. Every suffragist will hope for a fitting commemoration of this 50th Anniversary of our national organization and the Golden Jubilee of the first grant of full suffrage to women. She will hope for a memorial dedicated to the memory of our brave departed leaders, to the sacrifices they made for our cause, to the scores of victories won. She will not be content with resolutions of self congratulation; with speeches of tribute; nor will any suffragist propose […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address to NAWSA - Feb. 11, 1904
February 11, 1904
Delivered at the 36th Annual Convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C. When the American Republic was new, and manhood suffrage represented a unique experience in the history of governments, Lord Macauley exclaimed in the confidence of deep conviction: "America will not live long. Whenever a government puts the ballot in the hands of her promiscuous citizens as America has done, it will not be long ere some Caesar or Napoleon among them will seize the reins of government and the republic become a monarchy." He […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address at the 6th IWSA Convention: Is Woman Suffrage Progressing? - June 13, 1911
June 13, 1911
Presidential address by Catt to the Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Published by the International Woman Suffrage Association. In the debate upon the Woman Suffrage Bill in the Swedish Parliament, a few weeks ago, a University Professor said, in a tone of eloquent finality: "The Woman Suffrage movement has reached and passed its climax; the suffrage wave is now rapidly receding." To those who heard the tone of voice and saw the manner with which he spoke, there was no room for doubt that he believed what […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address at the IWSA Congress in Amsterdam - June 15, 1908
June 15, 1908
Catt's address as president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the Congress in Amsterdam, June 15, 1908. It is a suggestive coincidence that the opening day of this Congress commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Immortal Magna Charta. That event stands out distinctly against the background of seven centuries, as one of the most important in the history of man. The historian Green says of it: "The Great Charter marks the transition from the age of traditional rights to the age of written legislation, of Parliaments and […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Then and Now - Jan. 9, 1939
January 9, 1939
This speech was delivered by Catt at the celebration of her eightieth birthday, held at the Hotel Astor in New York City and sponsored by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission in cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. In a neat little house in the quiet town of Ripon, Wisconsin there lived a family named Lane in 1859. There, at 2 o'clock in the morning of January 9th, a new baby arrived, looking and acting like a million other babies born on the same day. […]
Ann Richards
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Keynote Address at the Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics Conference - April 7, 1995
April 7, 1995
Richards gave this address at the Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Thank you Dr. Rodriguez and Dr. Ward and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. To all the distinguished guests who are here from Mexico, I hope one of the reasons I was invited to participate today is because I am a friend to Mexico. I feel very strongly about your country. I feel very strongly not only because of the warmth and wonder of the people there, but because it […]
Carly Fiorina
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Technology, Business and Our Way of Life: What's Next - September 26, 2001
September 26, 2001
Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I’m honored to be here with you. So much has changed since I accepted your invitation to speak. Since then, we’ve become citizens of a nation in mourning. A nation whose basic freedoms, including our freedom of movement, are being weighed against other values like safety and security. In so many ways, we are a nation more united than we were just a fortnight ago–but we’re also a nation in search of new meaning and context. On the morning of September 11, I awoke to […]
Betty Williams
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Peace in the World is Everybody's Business - Sept. 20, 2007
September 20, 2007
Williams gave this address at Soka University. It could be better than that: Good morning! Now would you do me a favor please, would you all stand up? … Now give each other a hug… Doesn’t that feel good? My favorite expression in the whole world is: “Arms are for hugging, not for killing.” Now for those of you who know nothing about the work of peace that was carried out in Northern Ireland, it would be very difficult to me to stand here and tell you all the things […]