Speeches

Keisha Lance Bottoms
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Speech - Aug. 20, 2020
August 20, 2020
Good evening. I'm Keisha Lance Bottoms, a mother of four and Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia — cradle of the Civil Rights Movement and like so many other cities, a place where the struggle for human dignity continues. I'm proud to have grown up in this city, educated in its public schools and blessed to have known our hometown heroes like Dr. Joseph Lowry, Dr. C.T. Vivian and our teacher, our friend, our conscience, our congressman, John Lewis. He walked gently amongst us, not as a distant icon but as a […]
Gabrielle Giffords
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2020 DNC - Aug. 19, 2020
August 19, 2020
I've known the darkest of days. Days of pain and uncertain recovery. But confronted by despair, I've summoned hope. Confronted by paralysis anesthesia, I responded with grit and determination. I put one foot in front of the other, I found one word and then I found another. My recovery is a daily fight but fighting makes me stronger. Words once came easily, today I struggle to speak but I have not lost my voice. America needs all of us to speak out, even when you have to fight to find […]
Michelle Lujan Grisham
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Speech - Aug. 19, 2020
August 19, 2020
Good evening, America. I’m Michelle Lujan Grisham, governor of the great state of Nuevo Mexico. I'm proud of my home state every single day, especially how we have punched above our weight in our successful response to COVID-19. I'm proud of New Mexicans from Taos to Truth or Consequences who have stepped up and sacrificed in so many incredible ways this past half year. And I'm proud how we embrace our multicultural identity as our greatest strength. And I'm proud that New Mexico has shown what climate leadership looks like. […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Speech - Aug. 19, 2020
August 19, 2020
The morning after the last election, I said, “We owe Donald Trump an open mind and the chance to lead” — I meant it, every president deserves that. And Trump came in with so much set up for him; a strong economy, plans for managing crises — including a pandemic. Yes, we democrats would have disagreed with him on many things, but if he had put his own interests and ego aside, seeing the humanity in a child ripped from her parents at the border or a protester calling for […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Speech - Aug. 19, 2020
August 19, 2020
Tonight, we've heard from the people who make America work. People who put their lives on the line to keep our country going and since COVID-19 hit, they've taken one gut punch after another and what is the COVID fallout done to our babies? Well, I'm here at the early childhood education center in Springfield, Massachusetts which has been closed for months. Childcare was already hard to find before the pandemic and now parents are stuck, no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer childcare options. The devastation […]
Lisa Blunt Rochester
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Speech - Aug. 18, 2020
August 18, 2020
I'm congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester. In some history class in the future children are learning about this moment, they're learning about our pain our grief our worry, but they're also learning about a man named Joe Biden, about how he restored decency to our government and integrity to our democracy. They’re learning about how we conquered a pandemic, stood united for racial justice and built our economy back better than before. They're learning about how his leadership gave their generation a fighting chance. They're learning about us too, about the […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarts at 2020 DNC - Aug. 18, 2020
August 18, 2020
Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world. In fidelity and gratitude to a mass people's movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States. A movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia, and to propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn […]
Sally Quillian Yates
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
2020 DNC Remarks - Aug. 18, 2020
August 18, 2020
Speaking at a political convention is something I never expected to be doing, but the future of our democracy is at stake. I'm here in my hometown of Atlanta where as a young lawyer I joined our nation's Justice Department. For nearly 30 years, through Democratic and Republican administrations, I worked alongside my DOJ colleagues to advance our nation's promise of equal justice. I served as Deputy Attorney General in the Obama-Biden administration and stayed on as acting Attorney General for the Trump transition. Then, ten days, in I was […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
Temperance II / A Score of Years Ago – 1870s
January 1, 1870
Bloomer gave this speech while in Iowa, possibly in both Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. I would gladly have been excused from a participation in the proceedings of this meeting, but the invitation was so pressing I could not well refuse without seeming indifference, or opposition, to the great question we have met to consider. With several gentlemen engaged to speak good words on this occasion, it seemed to me that anything I could say would be superfluous, but the committee thought differently, and as I have never yet […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
Women's Suffrage IX/Labor Is the Right - January 1855
January 1, 1855
The objections which are too often made to what is called Woman's Rights arise, I think, from considering the subject without that care and discrimination which its importance demands. When it is asked that woman should have the same right to vote, to employment, and to the acquirement of knowledge as her brother, the minds of people are startled, and they at once pronounce the thing impracticable and dangerous. And yet, when they come to examine the grounds upon which either one of these claims are based—separately and distinctly—when they […]