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Elizabeth Alexander
categories: Inaugural Address, Poem, Speeches
Praise Song for the Day - Jan. 20, 2009
January 20, 2009
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair. Someone is trying to make music somewhere, with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice. […]
Amanda Gorman
categories: Inaugural Address, Poem, Speeches
The Hill We Climb - Jan. 20, 2021
January 20, 2021
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We've braved the belly of the beast, We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and notions of what just is isn't always just-ice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it. Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black […]

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Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
309 Catt Hall
2224 Osborn Drive
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-4009
515.294.3181
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Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
309 Catt Hall
2224 Osborn Drive
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-4009
515.294.3181
FAX: 515.294.3741
cattcntr@iastate.edu
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