Lecture

Monica Lewinsky
categories: Lecture, Speeches
The Price of Shame - March 19, 2015
March 19, 2015
You're looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade. Obviously, that's changed, but only recently. It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit: 1,500 brilliant people, all under the age of 30. That meant that in 1998, the oldest among the group were only 14, and the youngest, just four. I joked with them that some might only have heard of me from rap songs. Yes, I'm in rap songs. Almost 40 rap songs. […]
Cecile Richards
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The Political Progress Women Have Made and What's Next - Nov. 30, 2018
November 30, 2018
Nearly 100 years ago, almost today, most women in the United States finally won the right to vote. Now, it would take decades more for women of color to earn that right, and we've come a long way since, but I would argue not nearly far enough. I think what women want today, not just only in the United States but around the globe, is to no longer be an afterthought. We don't want to continue to try to, like, look at the next 100 years and be granted, grudgingly, […]
Winona LaDuke
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Seed Sovereignty: Who Owns the Seeds of the World - Feb. 9, 2022
February 9, 2022
[Greeting in Native language] Hello my relatives. Can you hear me okay there? Someone give me like a thumbs up. [Audience Member] We can hear you. [LaDuke] Okay. Thank you. I'm honored to be with you tonight. I'm pretty much due north of you – the deep north, as we call it on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. And binesi-ikwe – that's my name in Anishinaabemowin – Thunderbird woman, and I’m bear clan. I live here on Round Lake and I'm really especially honored to talk to you […]
Debra Haaland
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Who Speaks for You? - Dec. 22, 2016
December 22, 2016
I am a descendant of farmers. My ancestors followed the rivers to the pueblos of Pecos Laguna and Hamish to sing, plant, and live. Their hard work, preservice, and love have led me to here, to help diverse voices find a place in our community. But it may not have happened that way, because at one point the federal government thought it a great idea to move Indian into mainstream society. It happened in many ways. My grandpa he bought part of that argument, but he took most of assimilation […]
Marianne Williamson
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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 […]
Christine Todd Whitman
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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 […]