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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
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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 […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
Temperance and Women's Rights - June 1, 1853
June 1, 1853
A little more than one year ago, in this same hall, we formed the first Woman's State Temperance Society. We believed that the time had come for woman to speak on this question, and to insist on her right to be heard in the councils of Church and State. It was proposed at that time that we, instead of forming a society, should go en masse into the Men's State Temperance Society. We were assured that in becoming members by paying the sum of $1, we should thereby secure the […]
Eleanor Roosevelt
Speeches
Speech to the ACLU - March 14, 1940
March 14, 1940
Ladies and Gentlemen: I am glad you gave an award to the press tonight, because that gave them the opportunity to tell us just what they could do. Now we have come here tonight because of civil liberties. I imagine a great many of you could give my talk far better than I could, because you have had first-hand knowledge in the things you have had to do in Chicago over the years to preserve civil liberties. Perhaps, however, I am more conscious of the importance of civil liberties in […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Eulogy to Susan B. Anthony - March 15, 1906
March 15, 1906
Following is the full text transcript of Anna Howard Shaw's Eulogy to Susan B. Anthony speech, delivered at Rochester, New York - March 15, 1906. Your flags at half-mast tell of a nation's loss, but there are no symbols and no words which can tell the love and sorrow which fill our hearts. And yet out of the depths of our grief arise feelings of truest gratitude for the beauty, the tenderness, the nobility of example, of our peerless leader's life. There is no death for such as she. There […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
The Declaration of Sentiments - July 19, 1848
July 19, 1848
The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Stanton and read by her at the Woman's Rights Convention held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. After the initial reading during the morning session of the first day, each paragraph was re-read and discussed, with some changes made. According to the minutes of the convention, "The propriety of obtaining the signatures of men to the Declaration was discussed in an animated manner: a vote in favor was given; but concluding that the final decision would be the […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
Address on Woman's Rights - Sept. 1848
September 1, 1848
There is some question as to whether this speech was first given at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls on July, 19, 1848 or in September of that year. Stanton did give this speech on at least two occasions in 1848: in September at Waterloo, New York, and in October to the Congregational Friends at Farmington, New York. Between 1848 and 1850, Stanton also used this address as a source for short articles. Ladies and gentlemen, when invited some weeks ago to address you I proposed to a gentleman […]
Frances D Gage
Speeches
Address to the American Equal Rights Association- May 9, 1867
May 9, 1867
Transcript according to H.M. Parkhurst's phonographic report - Library of Congress. This address was given at the Church of the Puritans. First Day - Morning Session I have but little to say because it is almost 2 o'clock, and hungry and weary people are not good listeners to speeches. I shall confine my remarks therefore to one special point brought up this morning and not fully discussed. Sojourner Truth gave us the whole truth in about fifteen words: "If I am responsible for the deeds done in my body, the […]