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Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Address to the Women of Europe – June 6, 1920
June 6, 1920
Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, delivered this address at the organization's congress in 1920. It was seven years since last we met. In memory we live again those happy days of friendly camaraderie in Budapest. All the faces were smiling. On every side one heard joyous laughter among the delegates and visitors. An infectious good feeling permeated the gathering, while wit and humor continually scintillated through private conversations and public utterances: for everyone was happy. Every heart was filled with buoyant hope and every soul was armored […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Is it a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote? - April 3, 1873
April 3, 1873
Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of each individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws. We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty, and property. And when one hundred or one million people […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
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 […]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Speeches
The Humanness of Women - c. 1909-1910
January 1, 1910
Gilman gave this speech several times in New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut from 1909-1910. A woman by the river's brim,A wife and servant is to him­ And she is nothing more. WE HAVE made mistakes, as old as humanity, about the world, and about women. First, as to the world: This we have assumed to be a general battlefield for men to struggle in; a place for free competition; full of innumerable persons whose natural mode of life was to struggle for existence with one another. This is […]
Mary Church Terrell
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Progress of Colored Women - Feb. 18, 1898
February 18, 1898
In this major address before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Terrell demanded that NAWSA fight for the enfranchisement of black women as well as white women. Fifty years ago a meeting such as this, planned, conducted and addressed by women would have been an impossibility. Less than forty years ago, few sane men would have predicted that either a slave or one of his descendants would in this century at least, address such an audience in the Nation's Capital at the invitation of women representing the highest, broadest, best […]
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Impact of Women's Leadership: Challenges Ahead - March 13, 2007
March 13, 2007
Former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R-KS), delivered this lecture at the Dole Institute of Politics for the Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad Leadership Lecture. Baker's speech begins at 9:44 in the video. I'm really honored to be invited to be a lecturer this evening at this special lecture series honoring Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad. I graduated in 1954, two years before Emily came to the University of Kansas. But I've been so impressed with those whose lives have been touched by the leadership she gave both here at […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Address in New Orleans - Jan. 22, 1895
January 22, 1895
This speech was reported in the Jan. 23, 1895 issue of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt both spoke to a large crowd. Mrs. President and Friends: My friend, Mrs. Chapman-Catt, and myself, who are making this tour, wish to say a word in regard to the establishment in this nation of a genuine republican form of government. We wish to give you this remarkable message: Taxation without representation is unjust; taxation and representation are inseparable; the one is the outgrowth of the other. I […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address to NAWSA - Feb. 11, 1904
February 11, 1904
Delivered at the 36th Annual Convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C. When the American Republic was new, and manhood suffrage represented a unique experience in the history of governments, Lord Macauley exclaimed in the confidence of deep conviction: "America will not live long. Whenever a government puts the ballot in the hands of her promiscuous citizens as America has done, it will not be long ere some Caesar or Napoleon among them will seize the reins of government and the republic become a monarchy." He […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Danger to Our Government - Dec. 15, 1894
December 15, 1894
Carrie Chapman Catt made this speech at a suffrage meeting in Iowa in a year of militant nationwide strike activity, before she became a national suffragist leader. (Woman's Journal, Dec. 15, 1894) This Government is menaced with great danger, and that danger cannot be averted by the triumph of the part of protection, nor by that of free trade, nor by the triumph of single tax or of free silver. That danger lies in the votes possessed by the males in the slums of the cities, and the ignorant foreign […]
About the Catt Center
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics was founded in 1992 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University to promote civic engagement and participation in community leadership, politics and public service. The center’s programs blend the resources and scholarship of the academic environment with the experiences of practitioners in fields important to the political process. The center honors Carrie Chapman Catt—distinguished alumna of Iowa State, leader of the U.S. women's suffrage movement, crusader for international peace, and advocate for the expansion of women's […]