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Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, we have with us a delegate from England who was to have spoken this morning and who will undoubtedly arrive later but who is not here now. I have a favor to ask of this committee in an official capacity. It is something we have never asked before. We realize full well, and understand enough of human nature to know, that it is not a question of the actual merit of woman suffrage which must be considered by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
The Indifference of Women - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Blackwell gave this speech at a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is often said that the chief obstacle to equal suffrage is the indifference and opposition of women, and that whenever the majority of women ask for the ballot they will get it. But it is a simple historical fact that every improvement thus far made in the condition of women has been secured, not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and “continual […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Significance and History of the Ballot - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Cady Stanton gave this address in a hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage in the U.S. Senate. Since our demand for the right of suffrage under the Fourteenth amendment, which was denied by Congress and the courts, the only discussions in Congress have been our appeals for a sixteenth amendment until the recent bills on immigration, by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, and Senator Kyle of South Dakota, indirectly involving this question, and affecting the interests of woman. Their proposition to demand a reading and writing qualification on landing, strikes […]
Florence Kelley
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
The Working Woman's Need of the Ballot - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Kelley gave this address in a hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage in the U.S. Senate. No one needs all the powers of the fullest citizenship more urgently than the wage-earning woman, and from two different points of view—that of actual money wages and that of her wider needs as a human being and a member of the community. The wages paid any body of working people are determined by many influences, chief among which stands the position of the particular body of workers in question. Thus the printers, […]
Stephanie Schriock
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at the National Press Club - Sept. 18, 2018
September 18, 2018
Good afternoon. My goodness. Before I start, I just want to thank the founder and chair of our board of EMILY's List, Ellen Malcolm, for being here today. We often think of this moment – and you're gonna hear a little bit about this as the history-making moment – but none of this happens immediately. We all stand upon the shoulders of giants who came before us, and those shoulders I stand upon are Ellen Malcolm's shoulders. So thank you for being here today. And thank you so much for […]
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Speeches
Remarks at the Partnerships for Change Conference - 2011
My dear brothers and sisters, it is a great honor for me to be here with you and I feel quite emotional of being here in Oslo. It's like a home to the people of Northern Ireland, where we have a lovely peace center called Freedom. Please come and have a cup of tea anytime you're in Belfast, because that peace center was bought by the people of Norway for the people of Northern Ireland. Because they realized that we were coming out in ‘76, mostly ordinary men and women […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
Kansas State Referendum Campaign Speech - Sept. 14, 1867
September 14, 1867
How shall I find fitting words to express all I would say as I stand for the first time before an audience in Kansas? As the pious Catholic on entering his Cathedral kneels and with holy water makes the sign of the cross upon his brow before lifting his eyes to the Holy of Holies, so would I reverently tread this soil as the vestabule [sic] to our Temple of Liberty, the opening vista to the future grandeur of the new republic. Here the youngest civilization in the world is […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Suffrage Speech in New Orleans, Louisiana - Jan 22, 1895
January 22, 1895
This speech was reported in the Jan. 23, 1895 issue of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. Catt and Susan B. Anthony both spoke to a large crowd. I am sure there are rising in your hearts many objections as to the practicable working of this theory as though Henry George should come here and present his theory, or Bellamy his ideal government—it is all very well in theory, but will it work? Twenty-seven years ago this month an incident happened in the Rocky mountains which proves the woman suffrage […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Address in New Orleans - Jan. 22, 1895
January 22, 1895
This speech was reported in the Jan. 23, 1895 issue of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt both spoke to a large crowd. Mrs. President and Friends: My friend, Mrs. Chapman-Catt, and myself, who are making this tour, wish to say a word in regard to the establishment in this nation of a genuine republican form of government. We wish to give you this remarkable message: Taxation without representation is unjust; taxation and representation are inseparable; the one is the outgrowth of the other. I […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
The Parting of the Ways – Dec. 30, 1903
December 30, 1903
Following is a brief of a speech Catt presented to the Michigan Teachers Convention in 1903. As all the world knows, the American people, were the first to establish a general system of free education. Our fathers were not impelled to this undertaking by motives of charity or philanthropy. There was thought of giving a free gift to the people, because education was good for them to have it. Instead, popular education came as the inevitable and necessary adjunct of the movement toward democratic government. The idea of a Republic […]