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The New American Story – March 8, 2018
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The New American Story - March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018
WILLIAMSON: We’ve heard so much today, merciless attitudes towards refugees, lack of compassion towards the undocumented, by the way I have a problem with that phrase, just as no child as illegitimate, no one is undocumented in God's eyes. We heard about we heard about the sale of atrazine where the profit-making capacity of a chemical company, not just in the case of atrazine, but in so many chemicals, is placed above the health and well-being of our citizens and of our planet. There are so many things that we […]
Lecture
The Political Environment for Women in 2002 - September 19, 2002
September 19, 2002
WHITMAN: It is an honor to be serving as the Mary Louise Smith Chair during the ten year anniversary of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. I had the privilege of meeting Mary Louise Smith when I was a young woman and she left a lasting impression on me about the importance of public service. Mary Louise Smith was a trailblazer for women and politics and she knocked down many of the doors through which women are now privileged to walk. Since my time as EPA Administrator, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Subject and Sovereign - c. 1893
January 1, 1893
This speech contains many graphic descriptions of events that, while based in fact, are framed in a way some may find offensive. “Subject and Sovereign” Across the State of South Dakota there flows the great Missouri River. Its deep turgid waters and low bluffs, cut into two parts a vast, fertile plain, stretching away to the Eastward, until it is merged in the prairies of Iowa and Nebraska, and to the Westward, until it is lost in the lines of the Black Hills. On the East side, it is known […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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The American Sovereign (Lyceum Lecture) - 1888
January 1, 1888
The American Sovereign Introduction Since the earliest ages, when men first organized into systematic societies, there have been disputes among the leading minds of every people as to what ought to constitute an ideal form of government. The opinions, of course, have been very different, but upon our definition of what that government ought to be, the statesmen of every race, and time, and training have been agreed. They have all declared that government will most nearly approach the perfect and ideal, which gives to all its citizens the strongest […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Monroe Doctrine - January 1924
January 1, 1924
Monroe Doctrine 1924 THE CHAIRMAN: It would be in a measure without any excuse to undertake to introduce Mrs. Catt to this audience, but I merely want to say to you that she has spent a large part of last year in Latin America, and she will speak to you, I believe, of the Monroe Doctrine from an American point of view, but perhaps an American point of view which will reflect what our Latin American friends think about it. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (applause). MRS. CATT: Mr. Chairman, ladies […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Three I's - 1924
January 1, 1924
This speech was delivered more than once. However, the copy we have is from 1924. THE THREE I’S Carrie Chapman Catt It is particularly important at this time that women should keep their heads and their clearest common sense on the watch tower. It is important for two reasons: first, these usually dependable guardians of national and international welfare, seem to be everywhere off duty and second, this is our day and it behooves us to give a good account of our trust. It is in this particular instant, in […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Since Dr. Shaw Non - 1920
January 1, 1920
Since Dr. Shaw Non “What better memorial to a great suffragist could there be than a university chair?” said Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and of the International League of Women Voters, upon her return from the national suffrage convention in Chicago, where the memorial to Dr. Shaw as defined in the Bryn Mawr Shaw Chair of Political Science and the Barnard Chair of Citizenship found so much favor. “Without Dr. Shaw – and in this case, Dr. Shaw means a whole host […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Maine Campaign - 1915
September 17, 1915
The Maine Campaign 1915 I would like to make a confidential report concerning the Maine campaign. A Republican member from that state told Mrs. Roessing last year that the Republican Party would like to put a suffrage bill through in order that they might have the benefit of women’s vote in enforcing prohibition. The state is, as all the world knows, Republican. We inquired of the state workers the truth of this statement and learned that the State Association had asked every legislature for many years to submit an amendment […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Suffrage and Militancy - April 17, 1913
April 17, 1913
April 17, 1913. Suffrage and Militancy I am not militant in theory or practice. I believe in arbitration as a substitute for war; courts, as a substitute for street brawls; arbitration as a substitute for strikes. Reason, and not physical force to my mind is the standard of true civilization. I believe in education, persuasion, agitation and political warfare as the means which ought to be employed to gain and establish political reforms. I have no sympathy per se for law breaking and incendiaries. The suffrage situation in Great Britain […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Woman's Place is in the Home - March 7, 1916
March 7, 1916
Mrs. Catt’s Speech Tuesday Evening March 7th, 1916, Harrisburg, Penna. It is only a few months since a very remarkable thing happened – over a million men went to the polls and voted “yes” on Woman Suffrage in four conservative, reactionary Eastern States. And, when the votes were counted, there was not a woman in one of those four states who regarded that vote as final. A few took time to draw a long breath before beginning again, but some of us never lost an hour. We only said that […]