U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting

Lucy Stone
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 18, 1892
January 18, 1892
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I arrived in town only last night and did not even know of a hearing here to-day, so I have not any speech prepared. Nevertheless I am glad to be here, and I am glad to see this committee, and—I suppose I have the right to say it—I am glad to see you are the kind of looking men I see before me. It is something on our side to have you be the men you seem to be. I come before this […]
Lillie Devereux Blake
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: We are here to ask you to take measures to protect all the women of this nation in the right of suffrage, a privilege now most unjustly denied to a majority of them, who are still in the condition of the subjects of a monarchy, forced to submit to a government to which they have not consented and to pay taxes without representation. A few considerations will prove that this injustice, this denial of our chartered rights, is inflicted in defiance of the […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
This address was written by Stanton and read by Harriet May Mills. Honorable Gentlemen: In adjusting the rights of citizens in our newly acquired possessions, the whole question of suffrage is again fairly open for discussion in the House of Representatives; and as some of the States are depriving the colored men of the exercise of the right of suffrage, and all of the States, except four, deny it to all women, I ask Congress to pass an amendment to the national Constitution declaring that citizens not allowed a voice […]
Victoria C Woodhull
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Address to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives – Jan. 11, 1871
January 11, 1871
With this address, Woodhull became the first woman to address a U.S. House committee. To the Honorable the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States : Having most respectfully memorialized Congress for the passage of such laws as in its wisdom shall seem necessary and proper to carry into effect the rights vested by the Constitution of the United States in the citizens to vote, without regard to sex, I beg leave to submit to your honorable body the following in favor of […]
Isabella Beecher Hooker
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Remarks Before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives - Jan. 11, 1871
January 11, 1871
Hooker's address was given in the same hearing as the one by Victoria Woodhull that was the first address by a woman to a U.S. House committee. Hooker's remarks were in reply to a suggestion of the committee as to the propriety of a greater restriction rather than enlargement of the right of suffrage. We are told by men themselves that there are too many voters already; restriction is what we want, not enlargement of the suffrage. Let us see how this is, my friends; let us reason together on […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee – Feb. 17, 1892
February 17, 1892
Yesterday I noticed in a report of our hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House the headline, "Appeals to Deaf Ears." And I said, "Has it come to this, that when earnest and sincere women of this great country make an appeal to the heads of the Government it is dubbed an 'Appeal to Deaf Ears'?" Time was when the British Government thought our ancestors had not sufficient merit in their cause to be heard, and when they made an "appeal to deaf ears." But the time came when […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee – Feb. 17, 1892
February 17, 1892
Except where there is some very strong reason to the contrary, it is generally admitted that every man has a right to be consulted in regard to his own concerns. The laws which he has to obey and the taxes he has to pay are things that do most intimately concern him, and the only way of being directly consulted in regard to them, under our form of government, is through the ballot. Is there any very good reason why women should not be free to be consulted in this […]
Greta Thunberg
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit - Sept. 23, 2019
September 23, 2019
Thunberg's address began with her response to a question about the message she has for world leaders. My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. […]
Susan B. Anthony
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 24, 1880
January 24, 1880
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: I did not propose to make any argument, but simply to call the attention of the committee to the fact that disfranchisement is not only political degradation, but that it is also social, moral, and industrial degradation. It does not matter whether the class affected by disfranchisement is that of ignorant, intemperate, or vicious men—the serfs in Russia, the negroes on our plantations before the war, the Chinamen on our Pacific coast to-day—or the intelligent, educated women of this Republic, disfranchisement works precisely […]
Matilda J Gage
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 24, 1880
January 24, 1880
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Judiciary Committee: It is upon this point of the centralization of the suffrage power in the hands of the United States that I propose to speak. I will endeavor to show you that, in the progress of our government, from its very inception, liberty has been defended and has increased as certain power has been centralized in the hands of the general government, and taken away from the States. It will be borne in mind that at the beginning of their rebellion against Great […]