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Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Eulogy for Helen Hamilton Gardner - July 28, 1925
July 28, 1925
Catt gave this eulogy at the memorial service for Helen Hamilton Gardner at Gardner's home, 1838 Lamont Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Catt and Maud Wood Park spoke at Gardner's request. The hardest task that any human being is called upon to perform is to stand by the side of a friend truly loved and pronounce that last, long good-bye. Ever since there has been a written language among men, the record has been preserved among all races that men have laid away their dead with tender care, and […]
Matilda J Gage
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
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 […]
Lynne Cheney
Speeches
United Way Summit on Women in Philanthropy - May 13, 2003
May 13, 2003
It is a great pleasure to be here this afternoon. I appreciate that kind introduction, Melanie. People often have trouble figuring out what to call the wife of the vice president. Tipper Gore reports that she was once introduced as the first lady of vice. In any event, Melanie, you overcame all obstacles in your introduction, and I'm grateful for that. As for what title I ought to have, I got a good suggestion along these lines from my five-year-old granddaughter not long ago. She was in California visiting her […]
Pat Schroeder
Speeches
AHA 2008 - Jan. 4, 2008
January 4, 2008
And getting funding for breast cancer was a huge fight. We passed it unanimously in both the House and Senate three times. If you remember, if the House and Senate both pass something, how did it disappear? It always disappeared in the conference. Finally a group of us went to the conference committee and, of course, we were really quite upset. They tried to figure out how to throw us out, and of course, no sergeant at arms wants to come in and throw other members out of a conference […]
Gloria Steinem
categories: Interview, Speeches
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project – Sept. 28 and 30, 2007
September 28, 2007
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Interviewed by Evelyn C. White. *In this oral history Steinem discusses her upbringing in a loving but unstable home with an emotionally ill mother and a carefree traveling antiques dealer father. She cites her years at Smith and experiences in India as pivotal in shaping her views on race, class and gender. Steinem also describes her journalism career and the role her work as a writer and speaker played in raising her consciousness about women and society. The interview focuses of Steinem’s critical involvement in […]
Jane Addams
Speeches
Address at the Woman's Peace Party Conference – Jan. 10, 1915
January 10, 1915
Addams gave this speech at the Woman's Constructive Peace Conference in Washington, D.C. After the eloquent speeches you have heard from women who have come from the field of battle, as it were, a speech from one representing American women, thousands of miles away from the devastation and carnage, must seem tame and scarcely deserving a hearing. But there are certain things now being destroyed by war in which from the beginning of time women, as women, have held a vested interest, and I beg to draw your attention to […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
On Divorce - Feb. 8, 1861
February 8, 1861
This speech was given before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate. Gentlemen of the Judiciary--In speaking to you, gentlemen, on such delicate subjects as marriage and divorce, in the revision of laws which are found in your statute books, I must use the language I find there. May I not, without the charge of indelicacy, speak in a mixed assembly of Christian men and women, of wrongs which my daughter may to-morrow suffer in your courts, where there is no woman's heart to pity, and no woman's presence […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Statement at U.S. Senate committee hearing - April 19, 1910
April 19, 1910
Although the Constitution of the United States in Section 2 of Article I seems to have relegated authority over the extension of the suffrage to the various states, yet curiously few men in the United States possess the suffrage because they or the class to which they belong have secured their right to it be the State action. The first voters in the United States were those who possessed the right under the original charters granted by the mother country, and as the restrictions were many, including religious test in […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Broadcast for the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs - July 10, 1939
July 10, 1939
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs commemorates a century today: 1839 - 1939. The most important thing that happened within that century was the organized Woman Movement and what it did. It utterly changed the foundation of human society. At the beginning of that century, the legal and social status of women was almost unbelievably restricted. For many previous centuries the theory had been accepted with practical universality that men were divively appointed to rule and women to obey and this was enforced by both Catholic and […]
Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Gore
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 1996 Democratic National Convention - Aug. 27, 1996
August 27, 1996
Mr. Chairman, delegates, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans. Tonight, I would like to talk with you about a civil society. The kind of society I want my four children to live in. The kind of society you and I are working to build. A civil society is built by the smallest, simplest gestures. Things we do every day without thinking twice. Seventy-six years ago, Mrs. Burn from East Tennessee did such a thing. Women’s suffrage had come down to one vote – her son Harry, a 24-year-old Tennessee state representative, was […]