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Rebecca Kleefisch
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefish at the Liberty Coalition TEA Party- Sept. 3, 2011
September 3, 2011
Thank you. Thank you all so very much, you know it is unfortunate that last year on this day, I couldn’t join you. On Facebook and Twitter, and on the web, I am known as “RebeccaForReal,” so when you go home, please check it out. Yesterday I posted on my Facebook Isaiah 53:55, “by his wounds we are healed.” Last year I was not with you because last year, I was in the hospital. I had been diagnosed two weeks before my primary with a grapefruit sized tumor in my […]
Shenna Bellows
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Shenna Bellows at Scarborough High School- Oct. 25, 2014
October 25, 2014
Wow, I think all of you are as excited as I am about seeing Hillary Clinton tonight. My campaign is a woman-led campaign. My campaign manager, Cammie May Simpson, is the mother of a three-year-old and a one-year-old. And her three-year-old daughter went around today saying "Hiwawy Cwinton" and shouting it all day long. Hillary Clinton is such a role model for women and girls, and it is such an honor to be here, to be back in Scarborough to welcome her here tonight, and to stand up in support […]
Dolores Huerta
Speeches
Remarks at 2012 Children's Defense Fund National Conference - July 25, 2012
July 25, 2012
Huerta spoke as part of the closing plenary and charge for the 2012 Children's Defense Fund National Conference. We had convince people that they have power. They have power. And of course if you say to a farm worker who doesn't speak the English language, doesn't have a formal education, doesn't have any assets, doesn't have any money that he she has power they say, "What kind of power do I have?" And so what we had to convince the workers is, you do have power but that power is […]
Dolores Huerta
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Maria Huffman - Feb. 23, 1968
February 23, 1968
Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, discusses the Delano grape strike, racial discrimination, and farm work with WBAI's Maria Huffman. MARIA HUFFMAN: We are speaking with Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Committee. Mrs. Huerta, can you tell us what the goals of the organization are? HUERTA: Well, the United Farm Workers organizing committee, which began a few years ago, has its main objectives the betterment of life for farm workers, for the agricultural workers of the United States. And when I […]
Elise Stefanik
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Elise Stefanik Acceptance Speech- Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Tonight we made a little history in the North Country. I am honored and humbled to be the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Congress, and to add an additional crack to the glass ceiling for future generations of women here tonight But this election, it’s not about me, it’s about all of you here tonight and the people of the 21st district. I want to begin by thanking each and every one of you here in this room. We are here tonight because you believed that Washington […]
Kathy Hochul
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Accepting the Lieutenant Governor Nomination - May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014
Thank you very much, thank you. So it is true, democrats like to shout. Thank you guys. Thank you so much, I am so thrilled to be here. First of all, thank you to all the democrats in the room, the support is incredible. I want to thank Leader Pelosi for that announcement. It reminded me when I was listening to her words of something she’s said to me my first day as a member of Congress, representing upstate New York. She said Cathy, never forget your title is U.S. […]
Heidi Heitkamp
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Heidi Heitkamp Victory Speech- Nov. 8, 2012
November 8, 2012
You guys, I wanted so much to come back here and I can’t tell you how moved I am by all of you, once again, coming out to congratulate me. But the reason why I wanted to do this, is that I wanted to congratulate all of you. Every person in this room contributed to this event. Every person in this room contributed to this victory. Every person who manned a telephone, who wrote a check, who called their friends and neighbors, put up signs, and talked, and talked, and […]
Michelle Nunn
categories: Concession Speech, Speeches
Michelle Nunn Concedes in Georgia State Senate Race- Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Thank y'all so much. I just talked to David Perdue and I offered him my very great congratulations, as Georgia's next US Senator. I want to thank both David Perdue and I want to thank Amanda Swafford for their commitment to public service, and for a very spirited campaign. At our best, we not only accept the electoral results, but we practice the art of bridge building, and reconciliation. I offered David my strongest possible support, as he works to unite Georgia, and to build bridges across party lines and […]
Emma Tenayuca
categories: Interview, Speeches
1930s San Antonio union movement - Feb. 21, 1987
February 21, 1987
THE INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES Oral History Office SUBJECT: Union movement, S.A., 1930s INTERVIEW WITH: Emma Tenayuca DATE: February 21, 1987 PLACE: Her home in San Antonio INTERVIEWER: Jerry Poyo P: Why don’t we just begin, then, with some of your family background...where was your family originally from? When did they originally come to San Antonio? T: Well, they came from the eastern colonies. And the eastern colonies, I think, were established about 1685, 1687. When San Antonio was El Presidio de San Antonio, established, there was need here to […]
Jessica González-Rojas
Speeches
Speaking Out for Reproductive Freedom - April 12 2014
April 21, 2014
Gonzalez-Rojas spoke at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) 2014 conference, "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom," at Hampshire College. Buenos dias, CLPP! It is honor to be here and oh my gosh, I have to follow Monica. There's so many inspiring leaders and performers in this room tonight, so I'm just humbled to be here. It is truly an incredible time to be engaged in the struggle for reproductive justice. As a Latina, coming from immigrant family and a Puerto Rican family, […]