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Jane Addams
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Communion of the Ballot – Nov. 24, 1912
November 24, 1912
Addams gave this keynote address before the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Philadelphia. Convention and friends of suffrage: When I tried to compose a title for this very important meeting this afternoon, I made three or four attempts and finally asked to have printed upon the program: "The Communion of the Ballot," wishing to express, if I might, that desire among all women who are seeking suffrage to come out into that larger light which knows no class, which knows no distinction and where all subjects, at least […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Speech Delivered at Pan Hellenic Program - 13 July 1939
July 13, 1939
Speech delivered by CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT on PAN HELLANIC PROGRAM at NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR July 13, 1939 The future is unpredictable. An idea, a movement, an invention, may indicate a trend in a fixed direction which would naturally produce expectations which seem certain. What no one knows or can possibly know is the nature of the unexpected counter ideas and movements which arise and take full possession of the entire situation. Such influences may bring the tide of progress to a standstill or it may pick up some trends […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
For What Purpose Do We Live? - c. 1894
January 1, 1894
For what purpose do we live? Are there any prizes in the battle of life wo11h winning? Or if we fail, is the discipline of the pursuit worthwhile? These questions are absurd upon the face of them, but especially so when given before a company of young men and women. But there is a philosophy which just now sufficiently obtains (?) to merit consideration. A young man said to me recently that he believed that when a person's life had become a burden and was of no further use to […]
Margaret Spellings
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Speech at Colorado Technical University - June 15, 2013
June 15, 2013
Good morning. Thank you, President Koehn, for the gracious introduction. To the CTU faculty and staff, to the parents and families, friends and loved ones, distinguished guests and—most especially—to the graduates: Thank you for the chance to share in your celebration. And, above all, congratulations! Congratulations to the CTU class of 2013! Congratulations on your achievements! This is YOUR big day. I hope you savor it and soak it in. No matter how you celebrate your accomplishments—and you should celebrate! I hope you will look around and remember how you […]
Karen Hughes
Speeches
The CEO's of Leadership: Clarity, Example and Optimism - Oct. 3, 2013
October 3, 2013
Hughes spoke at Iowa State University as the Fall 2013 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Thank you very much. Thank you, Kristine—what a lovely introduction. President and Janet Leath, Dianne, Kristine. Thanks again, that was really, really a lovely introduction. I have to say it’s great to be back in Iowa. I was thinking on the drive here this morning that it really all started here. I have vivid memories of that Straw Poll, that August morning in Ames in 1999. My boss, then-Gov. Bush went on […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
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 […]
Ida Husted Harper
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Gentlemen, this is not the time or place to enter into an argument on the merits or demerits of woman suffrage, and we shall use the valuable hours you have so graciously accorded us simply to ask that you will give us a committee of our very own, before which we may feel that we have a right to discuss this question. In making this request we ask you to decide, first, whether the issue of woman suffrage is sufficiently national in its character to justify a special committee for […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
Women and Public Leadership - Oct. 24, 2007
October 24, 2007
Clinton spoke at Iowa State University as the Fall 2007 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Thank you so much, Maggie, for that wonderful introduction and for your student leadership and concern about all of these issues and I'm delighted that your family could be here with you to see the excellent presentation you just made. And I want to thank Dr. Dianne Bystrom for her outstanding leadership as well. And to the Catt Center and Iowa State for hosting this event -- and for all their work […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Speech before the Equality Club of Eagle Grove - c. 1893
January 1, 1893
As we read history, we are compelled to seek its gloomiest pages for the record of women. In the long journey of the race from savagery to civilization, woman has moved forward with man carrying a crushing weight of disabilities. We will not now enquire why these things are so, whether they arose from man's love of power, or from his chivalry and desire to protect. Whatever the causes, we here deal only with the fact that woman has been the world's great burden bearer, its great unpaid laborer. Through […]
Mary Church Terrell
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign Speech made at Newport, Rhode Island - 12 October 1920
October 12, 1920
[hw] = handwritten Campaign Speech made at Newport, R.I. October 12, 1920. It is extremely difficult for me to make a campaign speech to an audience composed of colored people. As a rule when I speak, I try to do one of two things; either, to enlighten people about the things they do not know, or, to convert them from what I think is a wrong point of view to a right. I can do neither one of these things to an audience like this for you all know as […]