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Benazir Bhutto
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address at the Fourth World Conference on Women - Sept. 4, 1995
September 4, 1995
Madam Chairperson, Mr. Secretary General, Distinguished Delegates, Sisters, Pakistan is grateful to the Government and the people of China for hosting this Conference. We have been deeply touched by the warm welcome and gracious hospitality. I pay a special tribute to the Secretary General of the United Nations and Mrs. Gertrude Mongella, the Secretary General of the Conference for their tireless efforts in organizing this meeting. My dear sisters, ladies and gentlemen! There is a moral crisis engulfing the world as we speak, a crisis of injustice and inaction, a […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
1900 NAWSA Presidential Acceptance - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
Good friends, I should hardly be human if I did not feel gratitude and appreciation for the confidence you have shown me; but I feel the honor of the position much less than its responsibility. I never was an aspirant for it. I consented only six weeks ago to stand. I was not willing to be the next president after Miss Anthony. I have known that there was a general loyalty to her which could not be given to any younger worker. Since Miss Anthony announced her intention to retire, […]
Elizabeth Dole
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Remarks at Duke University Commencement - May 14, 2000
May 14, 2000
Thank you so much for that wonderful, warm welcome. I am so grateful for the honor bestowed on me today, which I will cherish a lifetime. Thank you, Madame President, for that more than generous introduction. We're all so grateful for your strong and able leadership. Madame President -- that does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Oh, well. When the Class of 2000 invited me to be a part of this special day, I was both touched and flattered. After all, I come before you as a […]
Ida B Wells-Barnett
Speeches
Lynch Law in All Its Phases - February 13, 1893
February 13, 1893
Wells first published a version this speech on June 25, 1892, in the New York Age. She delivered a version of the speech at Lyric Hall in New York City on October 5, 1892, and published the speech as a pamphlet on Oct. 26, 1892. She delivered a similar speech twice in February 1893, at the Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts (this version), and by invitation of Frederick Douglass at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. I am before the American people to-day through no inclination of my […]
Ida B Wells-Barnett
Speeches
Lynching Our National Crime - June 1, 1909
June 1, 1909
The lynching record for a quarter of a century merits the thoughtful study of the American people. It presents three salient facts: First: Lynching is color line murder. Second: Crimes against women is the excuse, not the cause. Third: It is a national crime and requires a national remedy. Proof that lynching follows the color line is to be found in the statistics which have been kept for the past twenty-five years. During the few years preceding this period and while frontier lynch law existed, the executions showed a majority […]
Lucy Stone
Speeches
Disappointment is the Lot of Women - Oct. 17, 1855
October 17, 1855
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. When, with my brothers, I reached forth after the sources of knowledge, I was reproved with "It isn't fit for you; it doesn't belong to women." Then there was but one college in the world where women were admitted, and that was in Brazil. I would have found my way there, but by the time I was prepared to go, […]
Joyce Banda
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Speech at Nelson Mandela's Burial - Dec. 15, 2013
December 15, 2013
Your Excellency President Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; Mama Graca Machel; Mama Winnie Madikizela- Mandela Your Royal Highness Prince Charles Your Royal Highness Prince Albert of Monaco Your Royal Highness King of Lesotho The Mandela Family; Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government Members of the Diplomatic Corps Member of the Clergy Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. It is with a deep sense of humility that I accepted to come and be part of this event today. I stand before you to join you, the people of […]
Eleanor Roosevelt
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention - July 18, 1940
July 18, 1940
As reported in The New York Times, July 19, 1940. Delegates to the convention, visitors, friends: It is a great pleasure for me to be here and to have an opportunity to say a word to you. First of all, I think I want to say a word to our National Chairman, James A. Farley. For many years I have worked under Jim Farley and with Jim Farley, and I think nobody could appreciate more what he has done for the party, what he has given in work and loyalty. […]
Margaret Thatcher
Speeches
Britain Awake - Jan. 19, 1976
January 19, 1976
Thatcher gave this address at Kensington Town Hall. The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life. The question we must now ask ourselves is whether the present Government is fulfilling that duty. It is dismantling our defences at a moment when the strategic threat to Britain and her allies from an expansionist power is graver than at any moment since the end of the last war. Military men are always warning us that the strategic […]
Margaret Thatcher
Speeches
The West in the World Today - Dec. 18, 1979
December 18, 1979
Speech to the Foreign Policy Association at the Hilton Hotel. Introduction As I speak today, 1979—and with it the 1970s—has less than two weeks to run. I myself will have some reasons to remember both the year and the decade with affection. But in general few, I suspect, will regret the passing of either. The last 10 years have not been a happy period for the western democracies domestically or internationally. Self-questioning is essential to the health of any society. But we perhaps have carried it too far and carried […]