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Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
First Rally with Gov. Tim Walz – Aug. 6, 2024
August 6, 2024
[continuous cheering] We’re doing this! We’re doing this. Good evening, Philadelphia! Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Oh, it is good to be back in Pennsylvania. So let me say, on behalf of myself and the first, second gentleman of the United States, my husband, Doug Emhoff, thank you for the warm welcome. [cheers] And let me just say, it’s good to be here with all of the friends, all of the leaders who are here. I want to thank former Gov. Ed Rendell [cheers], […]
Valerie Jarrett
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Wellesley College Commencement Address - May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013
Good morning, everyone! Thank you for that generous introduction, President Bottomly, or should I say KBot, as I understand you are affectionately called by your students? I’d like to recognize the Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and alums, all who have contributed to the extraordinary Wellesley experience.

To the parents, grandparents, family and friends, without whose support, and love, this day would not have been possible—congratulations to you all.

 And of course, to the Wellesley Class of 2013, this is your day, and we are so deeply proud of you, not […]
Corazon Aquino
categories: Inaugural Address, Speeches
Inaugural Address – Feb. 25, 1986
February 25, 1986
My brothers and sisters: I am grateful for the authority you have given me today. And I promise to offer all that I can do to serve you. It is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight twenty years ago, the people should firmly recover those lost rights and liberties in the full light of the day. Ninoy believed that only the united strength of a people can over turn a tyranny so evil and so well organized. It took […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Wellesley College Commencement Address – May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015
Hello class of 2015. Congratulations! And thank you for that wonderful welcome. And thank you President Bottomly for that wonderful introduction. I have admired Wellesley—its mission, its story, its successes—for a long time and I thank you very much for inviting me. You are ridiculously lucky to be graduating from this bastion of excellence and on these beautiful acres. And if the goddesses and gods of the universe do the right thing, then you will also very soon be the proud alumnae of the college that produced America’s first female […]
Patsy Mink
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Discrimination Against Women – June 24, 1970
June 24, 1970
Mink gave this speech to the Special Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Madam Chairman and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I am delighted to have this opportunity to express my strong support of Section 805 of H.R. 16098, which has the purpose of amending the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1957, and the Fair Labor Standards Act so as to prohibit discrimination against women in education, and other objectives. Discrimination against women in education is one of the most insidious forms of prejudice […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Speeches
Commemorate and Mourn, Celebrate and Warn – Sept. 15, 2023
September 15, 2023
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave these remarks on the 60th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. Let me start by saying good morning. I am truly humbled to be here on this beautiful morning in this holy sanctuary, where so much work has been done over the years to move our country forward. I’d like to extend my thanks to Senator Jones for that kind introduction and for graciously agreeing to serve as my host on this visit. I would also like to give my sincerest thanks to […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Remarks at the Homegoing Service for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee – Aug. 1, 2024
August 1, 2024
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, church. (Applause.) Please have a seat. Good afternoon. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. And let me thank Chaplain Black for your words and the time that we have prayed together when I was in the United States Senate. I thank you, Chaplain. And Pastor Michael A. Pender Sr., thank you for the warm welcome this afternoon. (Applause.) And to the Members of the Lee family, President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, the […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Rally in Atlanta – July 30, 2024
July 30, 2024
[cheers and applause] Good evening. Good evening, Georgia. Thank you all. Thank you, thank you…. Thank you all. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. Oh, it’s good to be back in Georgia. [cheers and applause] Thank you, everyone. Can we please hear it for Tyler? [cheers] I want to thank Tyler for that incredible introduction. I invited him and several other young entrepreneurs to come and visit with me at the White House. And we had a really very long and important conversation about the future of America. And […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
First Campaign Rally – July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
Good afternoon, Wisconsin! [cheers] Good afternoon, everyone! Thank you! It is good to be back. Thank you all very much. Can we please hear for Leah and her extraordinary story and leadership? [cheers] And I do believe our teachers do God's work. They teach other people's children and God knows we don't pay them enough. Let's thank her. [cheers] And it is so good to be here and be back with so many extraordinary leaders, including my friend, the great governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers. [cheers] He's here somewhere. My […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Speech at Campaign HQ - July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024
[chants of “Kamala! Kamala! Kamala!”] Thank you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all. Thank you. Can we just give it up again for my husband? [cheers and applause] It is so good to hear our president's voice. Joe, I know you're still on the call. And we've been talking every day. You probably, you guys heard it from Doug's voice—we love Joe and Jill. We really do. They truly are like family to us. [member of the crowd: So do we.] Everybody here does. [applause] PRESIDENT […]