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Helen Hamilton Gardener
Speeches
Woman as an Annex - May 18, 1893
May 18, 1893
This speech was read before the World's Congress of Representative Women in Chicago on May 18, 1893. It was reprinted in Gardener's book "Fact and Fictions of Life." Ladies and Gentlemen:—If it were not often tragic and always humiliating, it would be exceedingly amusing to observe the results of a method of thought and a civilization which has proceeded always upon the idea that man is the race and that woman is merely an annex to him and because of his desires, needs and dictum. Strangely enough, the bigotry or […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Votes and Patriotism - Aug. 24, 1917
August 24, 1917
Speech is a very rough draft with a sizeable amount of handwritten notes. Although this transcript is undated, the Hammond (Indiana) Times reported on August 25, 1917, that Catt had given a speech by this name the night before at a conference of the Indiana Woman's Franchise League in Indianapolis. What is Patriotism? Love of Country But that is not a definite concrete quality, so we look to demonstration to find out what it is. Men and women think it out for themselves and then call everyone else unpatriotic who […]
Marianne Williamson
categories: Interview, Radio address, Speeches
Marianne Williamson on NHPR's The Exchange - April 17, 2019
April 17, 2019
KNOY: Our guest today is Marianne Williamson. She's a bestselling author and lecturer and now a Democratic presidential candidate. Williamson's campaign is based on the same themes that have brought her acclaim and financial success. For the past 30 years, she calls for a "moral and spiritual awakening" in this country and for a politics based on love, not fear. That ethic guides her positions on the issues. For example, Williamson says her economic policy would be 'capitalism with a conscience' and on national security she'd seek violence prevention establishing […]
Marianne Williamson
categories: Lecture, Speeches
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 […]
Marianne Williamson
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women and Religion - October 23, 2015
October 23, 2015
WILLIAMSON: Thank you. What an extraordinary opportunity to have a world Parliament of Religions, to have people representing religions from all over the world throughout our great tapestry of history here in order to not only support each other, but to support the common mission that common mission being to live the lives that we are all called to at the core of the universality of the themes that we all share. But I think also we have the opportunity being here together to do the work of religion within […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
We Live in a World in Which Every Nation is Organized for War - 1935
January 1, 1935
We live in a world in which every nation is organized for war. Each nation has its war machine, they are duplicated one of the other in general plan and equipment save that some are stronger and more up to date than others. The fashions in armaments change as rapidly as those of a lady’s bonnet and only the rich nations can keep pace with military inventions. Already ships, submarines and airplanes than any known during the Great War, guns and cannon shoot further than any known then and bombs […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Women's Memorial to London Naval Reduction Conference - 29 January 1930
January 29, 1930
CCC London Naval Reduction Conference – Women's Memorial to 1930 Out on the big Atlantic there are many ships sailing hither and yon this 29th of January. There is one ship that bears a special interest to the women of the United States. It is the Paris of the French Line which is carrying, at this moment, a deputation of American women to the London Naval Reduction Conference. They go, representing the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, which has just had its Fifth Annual Conference in […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
World War I in Retrospective - 10 January 1932
January 10, 1932
New Rochelle Jan 10 1932 The most shocking thing about the war was the fact that it was a Christian war. Christian nations brought it on and kept it going. For centuries Christians had been sending missionaries to every part of the world occupied by backward peoples and they were sent to teach the gentle loving philosophy of the Prince of Peace. In the war these backward peoples were enlisted on both sides to kill Christians. The more a man killed, the greater hero was he. They taught him how […]
Jacinda Ardern
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
UN Speech - September 27, 2018
December 28, 2018
[Maori] Madam President, Mr. Secretary-General, friends in the global community, my opening remarks were in Maori the language of the indigenous people of our te reo New Zealand. As is tradition, I acknowledge those who are here, why we are here, and the importance of our work. It seems a fitting place to stand. I'm struck as a leader attending my first United Nations General Assembly by the power and the potential that resides here, but in New Zealand we have always been acutely aware of that. We are a […]
Jacinda Ardern
categories: Acceptance Speech, Press Conference, Speeches
Acceptance Speech and Press Conference - October 19, 2017
October 19, 2017
Welcome and thank you for all your patience. I want it to be noted I've only left you here for 10 minutes though. I want to start by saying that it is an absolute honor and a privilege to have the ability as the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party to form a government for all New Zealanders. I also want to say that this has been a campaign that has been robust and rigorous, and I want to thank Bill English for the role that he has played […]