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Dolores Huerta
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote speech at 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality - Jan. 29, 2009
January 29, 2009
Huerta delivered the opening plenary keynote speech at the 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, convened by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Thank you, thank you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you very much [applause]. It's a great honor to be invited to address this organization. I know how hard you've worked over the years to make the changes that we need. And I just have to tell you – it's not even Valentine's Day yet but there is so much love in this […]
Dilma Rousseff
Speeches
Speech at the 70th UN General Assembly - Sept. 28, 2015
September 28, 2015
Your Excellency, Morgens Lykketof, President of the Seventieth General Assembly of the United Nations, Your Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellencies Heads of State, Government and Delegation, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege to address the General Assembly in this year when the United Nations celebrates its seventieth birthday. Let my first words, Mr. President, be to congratulate you for your appointment to preside over this Assembly. I reiterate, in particular, Brazil’s support for your efforts to adopt measures to strengthen the development agenda of […]
Dilma Rousseff
Speeches
Speech at the 67th UN General Assembly - Sept. 25, 2012
September 25, 2012
Mr. Vuk Jeremie, President of the General Assembly, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Heads of State and Government, Ladies and gentlemen, Once again, a woman's voice is opening the debate of the United Nations General Assembly. For many, we women are "half the sky". But we want to be half of the Earth as well. With equal rights and opportunities. Free from all forms of discrimination and violence. Capable of building our own emancipation and, with it, of contributing to the emancipation of all. Mr. President, A […]
Kay Ivey
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Auburn University Commencement- Aug. 13, 2012
August 13, 2012
Thank you, Dr. Madsen, for that thorough and gracious introduction. Before we get started now, I just have to tell you, Dr. Madsen, there’s one other award I wanted all of y’all to know about. My roommate Miss Auburn, and I were a team in the first Alpha Psi rodeo, and we won the goat milking contest. Oh yes, you have a fun as an Auburn student. President Gogue, Trustee Sahlie, Platform Guest, thank y’all for inviting me to celebrate with the class of 2012 today. Students, graduates of 2012, […]
Loretta Lynch
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Announcing a Federal Investigation of Chicago Police- Dec. 7, 2015
December 7, 2015
All right. Good morning, all, and thank you all for being here. I am joined today by Vanita Gupta, head of the Department [of Justice] Civil Rights Division, and Zachary Fardon, United States Attorney for Illinois. The Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards throughout the United States. Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful, and most importantly, constitutional. When community members feel they are not receiving that kind of policing, when they feel ignored, let down, or mistreated […]
Dolores Huerta
Speeches
NFWA march and rally - April 10, 1966
April 10, 1966
Following is a partial transcript of a speech by Dolores Huerta from a KQED news report on the National Farm Workers Association march and rally in Sacramento on April 10, 1966. ...the organizing efforts of the National Farm Workers Association, and today our farm workers have come to Sacramento. To the governor and the legislature of California we say you cannot close your eyes and your ears to us any longer. You cannot pretend that we do not exist. You cannot plead ignorance to our problems because we are here […]
Wendy Davis
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Women in Texas - July 9, 2013
July 9, 2013
Thank you all so incredibly from the bottom of my heart. (Inaudible) for all of us tonight, I am a TCU Horned Frog, and I bleed purple, and I never thought it would be so fond of the color orange. Of course, I'm awfully fond of being here in Harris County, so many people here in Harris County have helped me to win my elections in Tarrant County, and I thank each and every one of you for doing that for me. I am incredibly proud to stand here with […]
Dilma Rousseff
Speeches
Speech at the 66th UN General Assembly - Sept. 21, 2011
September 21, 2011
Mr. President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, Heads of State and Government, Ladies and gentlemen, For the first time in the history of the United Nations, a female voice opens the General Debate. It is the voice of democracy and equality reverberating from this, which has the commitment of being the most representative podium in the world. It is with personal humility, but with my justified pride as a woman, that I meet this historic moment. I share this feeling […]
Dilma Rousseff
categories: Inaugural Address, Speeches
Inaugural Speech to the Brazilian Congress - Jan. 1, 2011
January 1, 2011
My Dear Brazilians, By the sovereign decision of the people, today will be the first time that the Presidential sash encircles the shoulders of a woman. I am immensely honored by this choice the Brazilian people have made, and I recognize the historic significance of this decision. I also recognize that the green and yellow silk of the Presidential sash may appear to be soft, but it carries with it an enormous responsibility for the nation. To take on this responsibility, I have with me the strength and the example […]
Dilma Rousseff
Speeches
Opening Speech at 2014 NETmundial - April 23, 2014
April 23, 2014
Good morning to one and all. I would like to thank those who spoke before me for perfectly pronouncing "good morning" in Portuguese, "Bom Dia", as voiced by our dear representative from Africa, Nnenna Nwakanma. And by greeting her, I would like to extend my greetings to all women who are currently active on the Web. Both the girls and the guys who are equally active on the Web. Greetings, likewise, to the mayor of Sao Paulo who has so kindly welcomed us. And above all, I would like to, […]