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Bella Abzug
Speeches
Do You Know Me? - December 1983
December 1, 1983
In a mock American Express ad created at a 1983 Center for American Women and Politics conference, Congresswoman Bella Abzug tells how she helped secure equal credit for women. Do you know me? Well, American Express did not know me. Because when I was in the Congress of the United States and I applied for an American Express card, they said I couldn't get one unless my husband signed for it. So I called up Martin, my husband, and I said, “What do you believe? You love me because American […]
Coretta Scott King
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks on the Introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 - June 23, 1994
June 23, 1994
Thank you for your gracious introduction. And I want to thank all the members of the press for joining us today for this important press conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994. Senator Chaffe; Senator Kennedy; Representatives Edwards, Frank, Studds, and Morella; Distinguished Guests; members of the press. Today I am proud to join in supporting this much-needed legislation, which would provide some long-overdue protection to American workers from the injustice of discrimination based on sexual orientation. I support this legislation because lesbian and gay people are a permanent […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speeches
Remarks on the Deaths of American Personnel in Benghazi, Libya - Sept. 12, 2012
September 12, 2012
Yesterday, our U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Heavily armed militants assaulted the compound and set fire to our buildings. American and Libyan security personnel battled the attackers together. Four Americans were killed. They included Sean Smith, a Foreign Service information management officer, and our Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. We are still making next of kin notifications for the other two individuals. This is an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the world. We condemn in the strongest terms this senseless […]
Sandra Day O’Connor
Speeches
Portia's Progress - Oct. 29, 1991
October 29, 1991
Delivered on the 100th anniversary of the school's admission of women. I am very happy to be celebrating with you the One Hundredth Anniversary of Women Graduates from New York University School of Law. New York University showed great foresight by admitting women law students before the turn of the century. It was one of the first major law schools to do so. Columbia Law School did not admit women until 1927; Harvard Law School did not admit women until 1950. In fact, New York University flouted the wishes of […]
Ann Richards
Speeches
Eulogy of Barbara Jordan - Jan. 20, 1996
January 20, 1996
I didn't think I had enough time this morning, and I didn't wanna call the President and tell him he had to cut, and they promised me that nobody had a hook up here. Well, Nancy, the truth is I'd counted on Barbara preaching my funeral. She always could make things sound a lot better than they were. And Barbara was every bit as good as she sounded. In a world that sways on the winds of trends and polls and prognostications, she was a constant and she was as […]
Jane Addams
Speeches
Why Women Should Vote - January 1910
January 1, 1910
Originally published as an editorial in the January 1910 edition of The Ladies' Home Journal, it was also later published as a pamphlet. For many generations it has been believed that woman's place is within the walls of her own home, and it is indeed impossible to imagine the time when her duty there shall be ended or to forecast any social change which shall release her from that paramount obligation. This paper is an attempt to show that many women to-day are failing to discharge their duties to their […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Farewell Address - Dec. 19, 2012
December 19, 2012
Madam President, I rise today to address this Chamber for possibly the last time as the senior Senator from the great State of Texas. I have to say it is an ironic note that if I had given my farewell address last week, there would have been so much joy in the halls of the Capitol, ringing with the laughter and the anticipation of our season's happiest time. But in just one weekend, a sadness has set in with the news of a massacre of innocent children in Newtown, CT, […]
Emmeline Pankhurst
Speeches
Freedom or Death - Nov. 13, 1913
November 13, 1913
Mrs Hepburn, ladies and gentlemen: Many people come to Hartford to address meetings as advocates of some reform. Tonight it is not to advocate a reform that I address a meeting in Hartford. I do not come here as an advocate, because whatever position the suffrage movement may occupy in the United States of America, in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy and it has entered into the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war, and so tonight I am […]
Clarina H Nichols
Speeches
The Responsibilities of Woman - Oct. 15, 1851
October 15, 1851
My friends, I have made no preparation to address you. I left home, feeling that, if I had anything to do here, I should have the grace given me to do it; or if there should be any branch of the subject not sufficiently presented, I would present it. And now, friends, in following so many speakers, who have so well occupied the ground, I will come as a gleaner, and be as a Ruth among my fellow-laborers. I commenced life with the most refined notions of woman's sphere. My […]
Golda Meir
Speeches
Peace in the Middle East - Oct. 7, 1957
October 7, 1957
Mr. President, it is my privilege at the outset of my remarks to express to you the deep pleasure and satisfaction evoked in my country by your election to the highest office and the gift of the United Nations. Your integrity of purpose, your clarity of thought and expression, your judicial temperament are an example here to us all, and we feel fortunate indeed in the choice of our presiding officer. I wish also to convey to the Secretary-General the sincere congratulations of my government and his unanimous reelection to […]