U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting

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 […]
Susan B. Anthony
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 28, 1896
January 28, 1896
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: Allow me at the beginning to read the resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid as part of said Constitution, namely: ARTICLE XVI. “SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the […]
Leonora O’Reilly
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee- March 13, 1912
March 13, 1912
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. I ask this committee in all seriousness to understand that we working women are not asking for the vote for fun; we need the vote for self-protection. Gentlemen, you may tell us that our place is in the home. Do not make fun of us, please. There are 8,000,000 of us in these United States who must earn our daily bread. Now, in all seriousness, because we must earn that bread, we come to tell you that while we are working in the […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Woman Suffrage - March 13, 1912
March 13, 1912
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in presenting our arguments for your consideration in regard to these amendments to the Constitution, we would like first to draw your attention to the fact that women have suffrage already, to a very large extent, in the United States. More than a million women will be eligible to vote for President of the United States next November. More than half a million in addition have the municipal franchise. ln fact, the remaining women of America are almost the only English speaking women […]
Alice Paul
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement at a Hearing Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - Dec. 16, 1915
December 16, 1915
What we have come here for is to ask just one simple little thing, that this Judiciary Committee should refer this Susan B. Anthony amendment to the House of Representatives. We are simply asking you to do the thing that you can do. I do not think we have to discuss particularly whether suffrage is right or wrong, though we have had speakers here to show that it was a good thing. All we have to ask of you is that you let the House of Representatives decide this question, […]
Mabel Vernon
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement at a Hearing Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - Dec. 16, 1915
December 16, 1915
Mr. Chairman and members of the Judiciary Committee, the reason that we women come bothering Congress with a question of this kind is because we believe that woman suffrage is a national question which deeply concerns the women of this entire country; and if we do not come presenting our own case we fear that it will not be presented at all. [Applause.] The reason I dare to say that woman suffrage is a national question is because, first of all, we believe that citizenship is a fundamental thing in […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement at a Hearing Before the House Judiciary Committee - Dec. 16, 1915
December 16, 1915
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I fear that the hearings before this Judiciary Committee have become, in the eyes and understanding of many of the members, a rather perfunctory affair which you have to endure, having accepted positions upon this committee. May I remind you that since the last hearing before this committee something new has happened in the United States, and that is that more than a million men have voted for woman suffrage in four of the most conservative States of the East. In my own […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 3, 1914
March 3, 1914
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Judiciary Committee, in a published statement yesterday the Secretary of State, over his own signature, used these simple, .direct, easily understood words: All believers in a republic accept the doctrine that the government must derive its just powers from the consent of the governed, and the President gives every legitimate encouragement to those who represent this idea of government, while he discourages those who attempt to overthrow or ignore the principle of popular government. I am sure that all of us who know the […]